There Have Been Only Three Epoch-making Mathematicians,

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.

In Mathematics There Are No True Controversies.

By Explanation The Scientist Understands Nothing Except The Reduction To The Least And Simplest Basic Laws Possible, Beyond Which He Cannot Go, But Must Plainly Demand Them; From Them However He Deduces The Phenomena Absolutely Completely As Necessary.

For Three Days Now This Angel, Almost Too Heavenly For Earth Has Been My Fiancée ... Life Stands Before Me Like An Eternal Spring With New And Brilliant Colours. Upon His Engagement To Johanne Osthof Of Brunswick; They Married 9 Oct 1805.

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.