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Mathematics Is Concerned Only With The Enumeration And Comparison Of Relations.

I Am Coming More And More To The Conviction That The Necessity Of Our Geometry Cannot Be Demonstrated, At Least Neither By, Nor For, The Human Intellect. . . Geometry Should Be Ranked, Not With Arithmetic, Which Is Purely Aprioristic, But With Mechanics.

In My Opinion Instruction Is Very Purposeless For Such Individuals Who Do No Want Merely To Collect A Mass Of Knowledge, But Are Mainly Interested In Exercising (training) Their Own Powers. One Doesn't Need To Grasp Such A One By The Hand And Lead Him To The Goal, But Only From Time To Time Give Him Suggestions, In Order That He May Reach It Himself In The Shortest Way.

[on Sophie Germain] When A Person Of The Sex Which, According To Our Customs And Prejudices, Must Encounter Infinitely More Difficulties Than Men... Succeeds Nevertheless In Surmounting These Obstacles And Penetrating The Most Obscure Parts Of [number Theory], Then Without Doubt She Must Have The Noblest Courage, Quite Extraordinary Talents And Superior Genius.

It Is Not Knowledge, But The Act Of Learning, Not Possession But The Act Of Getting There, Which Grants The Greatest Enjoyment.