For Us There Is No Ignorabimus, And

No Other Question Has Ever Moved So Profoundly The Spirit Of Man; No Other Idea Has So Fruitfully Stimulated His Intellect; Yet No Other Concept Stands In Greater Need Of Clarification Than That Of The Infinite.

Geometry, Like Arithmetic, Requires For Its Logical Development Only A Small Number Of Simple, Fundamental Principles. These Fundamental Principles Are Called The Axioms Of Geometry.

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.

The Tool Which Serves As Intermediary Between Theory And Practice, Between Thought And Observation, Is Mathematics; It Is Mathematics Which Builds The Linking Bridges And Gives The Ever More Reliable Forms.

Indignant Reply To The Blatent Sex Discrimination Expressed In A Colleague's Opposition When Hilbert Proposed Appointing Emmy Noether As The First Woman Professor At Their University.