Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their university.
David HilbertIf I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
David HilbertFor us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be: "We must know - we will know!"
David Hilbert