Pierre de Fermat Quotes

It Is Impossible For Any Number Which Is A Power Greater Than The Second To Be Written As A Sum Of Two Like Powers. I Have A Truly Marvelous Demonstration Of This Proposition Which This Margin Is Too Narrow To Contain.

I Have Found A Very Great Number Of Exceedingly Beautiful Theorems.

I Am More Exempt And More Distant Than Any Man In The World

And Perhaps, Posterity Will Thank Me For Having Shown That The Ancients Did Not Know Everything.

I Have Discovered A Truly Marvelous Proof Of This, Which However The Margin Is Not Large Enough To Contain.

To Divide A Cube Into Two Other Cubes, A Fourth Power, Or In General Any Power Whatever Into Two Powers Of The Same Denomination Above The Second Is Impossible, And I Have Assuredly Found An Admirable Proof Of This, But The Margin Is Too Narrow To Contain It.