I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their succe…

- Charles Hermite

Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.

- Charles Hermite

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no…

- Charles Hermite

I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with the same char…

- Charles Hermite

We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

- Charles Hermite

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

- Charles Hermite

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

- Charles Hermite

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as…

- Charles Hermite