" Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other natural sciences, but in all relations she is entitled to the first rank ".
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
" Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate ".
- Leonhard Euler
"An equation for me has no meaning, unless it expresses a thought of God ".
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
"Number rules the universe".
- Pythagoras
"In Mathematics the art of asking questions is more valuable then solving problems".
- Georg Cantor
“Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.”
- Archimedes
" The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God " .
- Euclid
" Only geometry can hand us the thread [which will lead us through] the labyrinth of the continuum’s composition, the maximum and the minimum, the infinitesimal and the infinite; and no one will arrive at a truly solid metaphysic except he who has passed through this " .
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
" The soul is a compact of mind-masses combined in a most intimate and manifold manner. It grows constantly by accession of mind-masses, and upon these depend its development ".
- Bernhard Riemann
" If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is ".
- John von Neumann
" We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them ".
- Albert Einstein
" It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers".
- Pierre de Fermat
" Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics ".
- David Hilbert
" A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems ". - Paul Erdős
" Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there is ".
- Andrew Wiles
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