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Quote by David Hilbert

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

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David Hilbert, a German mathematician born on January 23, 1862, and died on February 14, 1943, was one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century. He is renowned for his contributions to the foundations of mathematics, geometry, number theory, and functional analysis. more

“A different image came to me a few weeks ago. The unknown thing to be known appeared to me as some stretch of earth or hard marl, resisting penetration... the sea advances insensibly in silence, nothing seems to happen, nothing moves, the water is so far off you hardly hear it... yet finally it surrounds the resistant substance.”

Different Seems Happens Earth Moving Water Known Week Sea Surround Resisting Penetration Unknown Things

Author:Alexander Grothendieck

“Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.”

Children Serious Discovery Privilege Idiot No Fear Have No Fear

Author:Alexander Grothendieck

“I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.”

Believe Mean Christian Past I Believe Christ I Believe In Mathematician Deities Newton Astronomers Pascal Copernicus Christ Like

Author:Augustin-Louis Cauchy

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