Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders..

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale..

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, n….

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it..

No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit o….

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics..

That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to….

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..

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them..

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almos….

I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propo….

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or ou….

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false..

In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested in….

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics..

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….

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences..

In mathematics there are no true controversies..

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

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly ….