Mathematicians Stand On Each Other's Shoulders.

If Others Would But Reflect On Mathematical Truths As Deeply And As Continuously As I Have, They Would Make My Discoveries.

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

I Believe You Are More Believing In The Bible Than I. I Am Not, And, You Are Much Happier Than I.

It Is Not Knowledge, But The Act Of Learning, Not Possession But The Act Of Getting There, Which Grants The Greatest Enjoyment. When I Have Clarified And Exhausted A Subject, Then I Turn Away From It, In Order To Go Into Darkness Again; The Never-satisfied Man Is So Strange If He Has Completed A Structure, Then It Is Not In Order To Dwell In It Peacefully,but In Order To Begin Another. I Imagine The World Conqueror Must Feel Thus, Who, After One Kingdom Is Scarcely Conquered, Stretches Out His Arms For Others.

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.