You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man so strange: when he has completed a structure it is not in order to dwell in it comfortably, but to start another.

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.