Niels Henrik Abel

One can sometimes stumble upon the truth, but most of the time it is reached only by a long and patient search.

I have opened a new path, but I have not had the time to travel it far.

The generality that analysis has attained is at once its strength and its weakness.

I have a mind that is restless and eager for discovery.

To be a mathematician requires a certain kind of courage.

The beauty of a mathematical theorem depends largely on its generality.

I have faith in the future of mathematics.

My work is my life; without it, I am nothing.

The quintic equation is a limit that nature has set for algebra.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication in mathematics.