Full Idea
No one shall drive us out of the paradise the Cantor has created for us.
Gist of Idea
No one shall drive us out of the paradise the Cantor has created for us
Source
David Hilbert (On the Infinite [1925], p.191), quoted by James Robert Brown - Philosophy of Mathematics
Book Reference
Brown,James Robert: 'Philosophy of Mathematics' [Routledge 2002], p.65
A Reaction
This is Hilbert's famous refusal to accept any account of mathematics, such as Kant's, which excludes actual infinities. Cantor had laid out a whole glorious hierarchy of different infinities.