In Mathematics There Are No True Controversies.

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.

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.

To Such Idle Talk It Might Further Be Added: That Whenever A Certain Exclusive Occupation Is Coupled With Specific Shortcomings, It Is Likewise Almost Certainly Divorced From Certain Other Shortcomings.

When A Philosopher Says Something That Is True Then It Is Trivial. When He Says Something That Is Not Trivial Then It Is False.

It May Be True, That Men, Who Are Mere Mathematicians, Have Certain Specific Shortcomings, But That Is Not The Fault Of Mathematics, For It Is Equally True Of Every Other Exclusive Occupation.