I Didn't Work Especially Hard At Mathematics

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.

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.

The Art Of Doing Mathematics Consists In Finding That Special Case Which Contains All The Germs Of Generality.

How Thoroughly It Is Ingrained In Mathematical Science That Every Real Advance Goes Hand In Hand With The Invention Of Sharper Tools And Simpler Methods Which, At The Same Time, Assist In Understanding Earlier Theories And In Casting Aside Some More Complicated Developments.