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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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 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.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

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.

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...

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...