Why should I be honored? Don't I have enough attention, comfort and power already?
The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
I do not know. [summarising his life's work]
I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them.
What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.
The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.
Yeah school girl, cool girl. Your dress is sexy and your momma is a cougar.
The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.