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.

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

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

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question...

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question...

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and...

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and...

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea...

No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea...

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned...

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned...

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so...

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so...

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction...

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction...

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the...

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the...

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the...

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the...

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications...

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications...

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in...

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in...