“And have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat.”

And all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

These … tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences.

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other.

It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success.

did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered.

Are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.

But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.

In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems.

Flowers are words even a baby can understand.

You can’t beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don’t even try to.

What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.

There is a time for departure even when there’s no certain place to go.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.