We Must Admit With Humility That, While

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.

When I Have Clarified And Exhausted A Subject, Then I Turn Away From It, In Order To Go Into Darkness Again.

I Have A True Aversion To Teaching. The Perennial Business Of A Professor Of Mathematics Is Only To Teach The Abc Of His Science; Most Of The Few Pupils Who Go A Step Further, And Usually To Keep The Metaphor, Remain In The Process Of Gathering Information, Become Only Halbwisser [one Who Has Superficial Knowledge Of The Subject], For The Rarer Talents Do Not Want To Have Themselves Educated By Lecture Courses, But Train Themselves. And With This Thankless Work The Professor Loses His Precious Time.

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

Sophie Germain Proved To The World That Even A Woman Can Accomplish Something In The Most Rigorous And Abstract Of Sciences And For That Reason Would Well Have Deserved An Honorary Degree.