If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the — David Hilbert
He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain. — David Hilbert
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is — David Hilbert
Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. — David Hilbert
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country. — David Hilbert
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. — David Hilbert
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: — David Hilbert
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality. — David Hilbert
The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does — David Hilbert