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The Problem Of Distinguishing Prime Numbers From Composite Numbers And Of Resolving The Latter Into Their Prime Factors Is Known To Be One Of The Most Important And Useful In Arithmetic. It Has Engaged The Industry And Wisdom Of Ancient And Modern Geometers To Such An Extent That It Would Be Superfluous To Discuss The Problem At Length. ... 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.

In Mathematics There Are No True Controversies.

My Young Friend, I Wish That Science Would Intoxicate You As Much As Our Good Göttingen Beer! Upon Seeing A Student Staggering Down A Street.

Ask Her To Wait A Moment - I Am Almost Done.

There Are Problems To Whose Solution I Would Attach An Infinitely Greater Importance Than To Those Of Mathematics, For Example Touching Ethics, Or Our Relation To God, Or Concerning Our Destiny And Our Future; But Their Solution Lies Wholly Beyond Us And Completely Outside The Province Of Science.