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David Hilbert

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  • “Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.” -David Hilbert

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  • “Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom – that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.” -David Hilbert

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  • “If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.” -David Hilbert

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