David Hilbert Quote

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

Quoted in Mathematical Circles Revisited (1971) by Howard Whitley Eves

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.