However Unapproachable These Problems May Seem To

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.

He Who Seeks For Methods Without Having A Definite Problem In Mind Seeks In The Most Part In Vain.

We Ought Not To Believe Those Who Today, Adopting A Philosophical Air And With A Tone Of Superiority, Prophesy The Decline Of Culter And Are Content With The Unknowable In A Self-satisfied Way. For Us There Is No Unknowable, And In My Opinion There Is Also Non Whatsoever For The Natural Sciences. In Place Of This Foolish Unknowable, Let Our Watchword On The Contrary Be: We Must Know - We Shall Know.

Is Mathematics Doomed To Suffer The Same Fate As Other Sciences That Have Split Into Separate Branches?... Mathematics Is, In My Opinion, An Indivisible Whole... May The New Century Bring With It Ingenious Champions And Many Zealous And Enthusiastic Disciples.

If One Were To Bring Ten Of The Wisest Men In The World Together And Ask Them What Was The Most Stupid Thing In Existence, They Would Not Be Able To Discover Anything So Stupid As Astrology.