David Hilbert: Wir müssen wissen, wir werden wissen

[ignatei]

Happy Birthday, Mr. Hilbert.

[asolutionforyou]

We ought not believe those who today, with a philosophical air and

a tone of superiority, prophesy the decline of culture, and are smug

in their acceptance of the Ignorabimus principle. For us there is no

Ignorabimus, and in my opinion there is none for the natural sciences

either. In place of this foolish Ignorabimus, let our resolution

be, to the contrary: “We must know, we shall know.”

David Hilbert, on September 8, 1930, in Königsberg

[hyperseauton]

about the most stupid thing I have ever heard.

This was very much before Brouwer, Turing, and Gödel where positivists still thought mathematics was not constructed and inherently out there in the Platonic heavens.

Postmodernism, skepticism, relativism and pragmatism took the carpet away under the feet of the Hilbert's.

[Prolgeoisie]

I'm not a philosopher, but I don't think those things have much to do with mathematics; logic took it away (the guys you mentioned used logic).

[kampfkeks96]

ihr werdets nich glauben aber ich bin mit dem verwandt

[someephemeron]

@kampfkeks96 Geil, kannst du auch Mathe?