David Hilbert Quotes

Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.

What is mathematics? It is only a systematic effort of solving puzzles posed by nature.

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

The reason why we do maths is because it's like poetry. It's about patterns, and that really turned me on. It made me feel that maths was in tune with the other things I liked doing.

Mathematics has beauty and romance. It's not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It's an extraordinary place; it's worth spending time there.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

I've always enjoyed mathematics. It is the most precise and concise way of expressing any idea.

Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects.

My dad is a mathematician; I think we both have that problem-solving, looking-for-patterns way of thinking.

I can see that, without being excited, mathematics can look pointless and cold.

Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Mathematics is the music of reason.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

I love math.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

Math, it's a puzzle to me. I love figuring out puzzles.