My Beautiful Proof Lies All In Ruins.

To Ask The Right Question Is Harder Than To Answer It.

My Theory Stands As Firm As A Rock; Every Arrow Directed Against It Will Return Quickly To Its Archer. How Do I Know This? Because I Have Studied It From All Sides For Many Years; Because I Have Examined All Objections Which Have Ever Been Made Against The Infinite Numbers; And Above All Because I Have Followed Its Roots, So To Speak, To The First Infallible Cause Of All Created Things.

The Transfinite Numbers Are In A Sense The New Irrationalities [ ... They] Stand Or Fall With The Finite Irrational Numbers.

A False Conclusion Once Arrived At And Widely Accepted Is Not Easily Dislodged And The Less It Is Understood The More Tenaciously It Is Held.

Mathematics, In The Development Of Its Ideas, Has Only To Take Account Of The Immanent Reality Of Its Concepts And Has Absolutely No Obligation To Examine Their Transient Reality.