In Mathematics There Are No True Controversies.

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, Not The Being-there But The Getting There That Afford The Greatest Satisfaction. If I Have Exhausted Something, I Leave It In Order To Go Again Into The Dark. Thus Is That Insatiable Man So Strange: When He Has Completed A Structure It Is Not In Order To Dwell In It Comfortably, But To Start Another.

It Is Always Noteworthy That All Those Who Seriously Study This Science [the Theory Of Numbers] Conceive A Sort Of Passion For It.

I Have Had My Results For A Long Time: But I Do Not Yet Know How I Am To Arrive At Them.

Mathematics Is The Queen Of Science, And Arithmetic The Queen Of Mathematics.

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.