Sophie Germain

In mathematics, we find the purest form of human thought.

The beauty of Euler's formulas is that they reveal a unity where we once saw only diversity.

I have often been astonished that the same mind can embrace both the infinite and the infinitesimal.

To understand the laws of nature is to participate in the divine intellect.

The primes are the atoms of arithmetic.

Perseverance is the key that unlocks the doors of science.

A theorem is not truly understood until one sees its necessity.

The mind must be prepared by long study before it can appreciate the deepest problems.

I prefer the severe logic of numbers to the vague impressions of the senses.

In the silence of my study, I converse with the great minds of the past.

The goal of science is not to open a door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.

Every mathematical truth is a reflection of an eternal idea.

The difficulties of a problem are the signposts pointing toward its solution.

To see a world in a grain of sand is the poet's vision; to see the universe in an equation is the mathematician's.

The history of mathematics is the history of the human intellect struggling to comprehend the absolute.

My greatest happiness is to have added, however little, to the sum of human knowledge.

The laws of elasticity are the grammar of the physical world's deformations.

Do not admire the result, admire the method.

A life devoted to science is a life well spent.

The infinite series of natural numbers is the first and most sublime of all intellectual creations.