David Hilbert Quotes

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.

Space is to place as eternity is to time.

We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we cannot conceive of so much matter that our imagination will not stand upon the farthest star and see infinite space beyond.

Not to be limited by the greatest and yet to be contained in the tiniest—this is the divine

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

The future is wider than vision, and has no end.

The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite? Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.

Infinity is almost impossible for an eight-year-old to grasp. It's an inquiring age, and you're beginning to shape your thoughts and questions about life in general at that stage.

That which has no limitations, has no form.

Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.

The vastness of Russia devours us.

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

I do not work within the confines of any realm. I work in the unique moment of duration.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I'm the container.

I can't help it, the idea of the infinite torments me.

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Infinity is a way to describe the incomprehensible to the human mind. In a way, it notates a mystery. That kind of mystery exists in relationships. A lifetime is not enough to know someone else. It provides a brief glimpse.

That is a long word: forever!