David Hilbert Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"

  David Hilbert

  Knowledge, Science, Knows

  Address to the Society of German Scientists and Physicians, in Königsberg, September 08, 1930.

• The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.

  David Hilbert

  Math, Science, Doe

  "Mathematical Problems". Lecture delivered before the International Congress of Mathematicians at Paris, translated by Maby Winton Newson, mathcs.clarku.edu. 1900.

• One hears a lot of talk about the hostility between scientists and engineers. I don't believe in any such thing. In fact I am quite certain it is untrue... There cannot possibly be anything in it because neither side has anything to do with the other.

  David Hilbert

  Believe, Science, Facts

• Geometry is the most complete science.

  David Hilbert

  Science, Geometry

• How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

  David Hilbert

  Time, Real, Math

• He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

  David Hilbert

  Science, Mind, Problem

• One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it

  David Hilbert

  Work, Math, Science

  Quoted in Howard Eves, Mathematical Circles Revisited (1971)

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin