David Hilbert Quotes
A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
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The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.
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War is over if you want it.
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My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.
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I really enjoy helping people out, and I enjoy time spent with kids.
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Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
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There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.
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I may be in timeout forever. But I hope not to be.
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Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.
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I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I was not thinking quite what I was about. The sums can be done better, if I tried, than they are.
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Being inspired is one thing, but completely knocking off a design is another. There is a big difference.
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I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.' At the same time, I read an enormous number of American comics because Shanghai was an American zone of influence.
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I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.
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When you think about growing and being empowered yourself, it is what you've been able to do for other people that leaves you the fullest.
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I consider myself lucky to have been born into a family that valued service to both one's country and one's community.
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I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.
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Contrary to the rumours that you've heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth.
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Perhaps we'd understood each other too well to be attracted to one another. There were no occlusions in communication, those breaks in understanding that awaken desire.
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If I could play football, I'd play football. But not women's football - real football. Or I'd just date a quarterback.
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I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.
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Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
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I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.
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As long as in love there is "you" and "me," love is not fully kindled.
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A mathematical problem should be difficult in order to entice us, yet not completely inaccessible, lest it mock at our efforts. It should be to us a guide post on the mazy paths to hidden truths, and ultimately a reminder of our pleasure in the successful solution.
