Sophie Germain quotes:

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree."

Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.

Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.

It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go