Mathematics Is The Queen Of The Sciences.

There Are Problems To Whose Solution I Would Attach An Infinitely Greater Importance Than To Those Of Mathematics, For Example Touching Ethics, Or Our Relation To God, Or Concerning Our Destiny And Our Future; But Their Solution Lies Wholly Beyond Us And Completely Outside The Province Of Science.

[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.

Complete Knowledge Of The Nature Of An Analytic Function Must Also Include Insight Into Its Behavior For Imaginary Values Of The Arguments. Often The Latter Is Indispensable Even For A Proper Appreciation Of The Behavior Of The Function For Real Arguments. It Is Therefore Essential That The Original Determination Of The Function Concept Be Broadened To A Domain Of Magnitudes Which Includes Both The Real And The Imaginary Quantities, On An Equal Footing, Under The Single Designation Complex Numbers.

The Problem Of Distinguishing Prime Numbers From Composite Numbers And Of Resolving The Latter Into Their Prime Factors Is Known To Be One Of The Most Important And Useful In Arithmetic. It Has Engaged The Industry And Wisdom Of Ancient And Modern Geometers To Such An Extent That It Would Be Superfluous To Discuss The Problem At Length. ... Further, The Dignity Of The Science Itself Seems To Require That Every Possible Means Be Explored For The Solution Of A Problem So Elegant And So Celebrated.

I Believe You Are More Believing In The Bible Than I. I Am Not, And, You Are Much Happier Than I.