It Is Always Noteworthy That All Those

The Enchanting Charms Of This Sublime Science Reveal Only To Those Who Have The Courage To Go Deeply Into It.

To Praise It Would Amount To Praising Myself. For The Entire Content Of The Work... Coincides Almost Exactly With My Own Meditations Which Have Occupied My Mind For The Past Thirty Or Thirty-five Years.

Mathematical Discoveries, Like Springtime Violets In The Woods, Have Their Season Which No Human Can Hasten Or Retard.

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 Of Mind To Regard The Infinite As Something Bounded.

[on Sophie Germain] When A Person Of The Sex Which, According To Our Customs And Prejudices, Must Encounter Infinitely More Difficulties Than Men... Succeeds Nevertheless In Surmounting These Obstacles And Penetrating The Most Obscure Parts Of [number Theory], Then Without Doubt She Must Have The Noblest Courage, Quite Extraordinary Talents And Superior Genius.