Theory Attracts Practice As The Magnet Attracts

That This Subject [of Imaginary Magnitudes] Has Hitherto Been Considered From The Wrong Point Of View And Surrounded By A Mysterious Obscurity, Is To Be Attributed Largely To An Ill-adapted Notation. If, For Example, +1, -1, And The Square Root Of -1 Had Been Called Direct, Inverse And Lateral Units, Instead Of Positive, Negative And Imaginary (or Even Impossible), Such An Obscurity Would Have Been Out Of The Question.

My Young Friend, I Wish That Science Would Intoxicate You As Much As Our Good Göttingen Beer! Upon Seeing A Student Staggering Down A Street.

With A Thousand Joys I Would Accept A Nonacademic Job For Which Industriousness, Accuracy, Loyalty, And Such Are Sufficient Without Specialized Knowledge, And Which Would Give A Comfortable Living And Sufficient Leisure, In Order To Sacrifice To My Gods [mathematical Research]. For Example, I Hope To Get The Editting Of The Census, The Birth And Death Lists In Local Districts, Not As A Job, But For My Pleasure And Satisfaction.

I Believe You Are More Believing In The Bible Than I. I Am Not, And, You Are Much Happier Than I.

Less Depends Upon The Choice Of Words Than Upon This, That Their Introduction Shall Be Justified By Pregnant Theorems.