A Mathematical Problem Should Be Difficult In

The Infinite! No Other Question Has Ever Moved So Profoundly The Spirit Of Man.

An Old French Mathematician Said: "a Mathematical Theory Is Not To Be Considered Complete Until You Have Made It So Clear That You Can Explain It To The First Man Whom You Meet On The Street." This Clearness And Ease Of Comprehension, Here Insisted On For A Mathematical Theory, I Should Still More Demand For A Mathematical Problem If It Is To Be Perfect; For What Is Clear And Easily Comprehended Attracts, The Complicated Repels Us.

I Do Not See That The Sex Of The Candidate Is An Argument Against Her Admission As A Privatdozent. After All, The Senate Is Not A Bathhouse. Objecting To Sex Discrimination Being The Reason For Rejection Of Emmy Noether's Application To Join The Faculty At The University Of Gottingen.

We Do Not Master A Scientific Theory Until We Have Shelled And Completely Prised Free Its Mathematical Kernel.

Before Beginning [to Try To Prove Fermat's Last Theorem] I Should Have To Put In Three Years Of Intensive Study, And I Haven't That Much Time To Squander On A Probable Failure.