Physics Is Becoming Too Difficult For The

Mathematics Knows No Races Or Geographic Boundaries; For Mathematics, The Cultural World Is One Country.

No Other Question Has Ever Moved So Profoundly The Spirit Of Man; No Other Idea Has So Fruitfully Stimulated His Intellect; Yet No Other Concept Stands In Greater Need Of Clarification Than That Of The Infinite.

I Do Not Want To Presuppose Anything As Known. I See In My Explanation In Section 1 The Definition Of The Concepts Point, Straight Line And Plane, If One Adds To These All The Axioms Of Groups I-v As Characteristics. If One Is Looking For Other Definitions Of Point, Perhaps By Means Of Paraphrase In Terms Of Extensionless, Etc., Then, Of Course, I Would Most Decidedly Have To Oppose Such An Enterprise. One Is Then Looking For Something That Can Never Be Found, For There Is Nothing There, And Everything Gets Lost, Becomes Confused And Vague, And Degenerates Into A Game Of Hide And Seek.

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.

Physics Is Becoming Too Difficult For The Physicists.