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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

{In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner}

I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not.

Ask her to wait a moment I am almost done.

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...

{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare}

God does arithmetic.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ... , which is never permissible in mathematics.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.