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I Confess That Fermat's Theorem As An Isolated Proposition Has Very Little Interest For Me, Because I Could Easily Lay Down A Multitude Of Such Propositions, Which One Could Neither Prove Nor Dispose Of.

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.

I Have The Vagary Of Taking A Lively Interest In Mathematical Subjects Only Where I May Anticipate Ingenious Association Of Ideas And Results Recommending Themselves By Elegance Or Generality.

My Young Friend, I Wish That Science Would Intoxicate You As Much As Our Good Göttingen Beer! Upon Seeing A Student Staggering Down A Street.

Does The Pursuit Of Truth Give You As Much Pleasure As Before? Surely It Is Not The Knowing But The Learning, Not The Possessing But The Acquiring, Not The Being-there But The Getting There That Afford The Greatest Satisfaction. If I Have Exhausted Something, I Leave It In Order To Go Again Into The Dark. Thus Is That Insatiable Man So Strange: When He Has Completed A Structure It Is Not In Order To Dwell In It Comfortably, But To Start Another.