David Hilbert Quotes

To new concepts correspond, necessarily, new signs. These we choose in such a way that they remind us of the phenomena which were the occasion for the formation of the new concepts.

David Hilbert

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• There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Time
  • Money
  • Matter

• I don't care who's on the label, because I have a job to do.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Job
  • Care
  • Because

• America is another name for opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • America
  • Opportunity
  • Name

• I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Expression

• One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Right
  • Intelligence

• Actually, 'Die Hard' was the first movie I ever saw in the theater. When I was a newborn, my parents were going stir-crazy in the house, and they put me in the bassinet, and I slept through 'Die Hard' in the theater as an infant.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Movie
  • Parents
  • Crazy

• I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Trying
  • School
  • Done

• The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Best
  • Satisfied
  • Tastes

• My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Discoveries

• All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Design
  • Architecture

• You can't run a business or anything else on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Run
  • Theory

• Love when you canCry when you have to...Be who you mustThat's a part of the planAwait your arrivalWith simple survivalAnd one day we'll all understand...

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Simple

• Truth, Goodness, Beauty - those celestial thrins,Continually are born; e'en now the Universe,With thousand throats, and eke with greener smiles,Its joy confesses at their recent birth.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Universe

• Is Brooklyn in the house? Without a doubt, I'm the rapper with clout everybody yap about.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • House
  • Doubt

• Solomon made a great mistake when he asked for wisdom.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Great
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake

• I love that '...Baby One More Time' video, to be honest; it's amazing.

  

  Charli XCX
  • Time
  • Amazing
  • Baby

• Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Blunt
  • Admonition
  • Recipient

• One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Book

• To new concepts correspond, necessarily, new signs. These we choose in such a way that they remind us of the phenomena which were the occasion for the formation of the new concepts.

  

  David Hilbert