Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.
Physics is much too hard for physicists.
Some people have got a mental horizon of radius zero and call it their point of view.
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
Before beginning [to try to prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I should have to put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure.