He fully recognised the justice and correctness of Weierstrass 's critique, but he said, as Weierstrass once told me, that he appealed to Dirichlet 's Principle only as a convenient tool that was right at hand, and that his existence theorems are still correct.
Siya ganap na kinikilala ang katarungan at kawastuhan ng Weierstrass' s pintas, ngunit sinabi niya, bilang Weierstrass kapag sinasabi sa akin, na siya appealed sa Dirichlet 's Prinsipyo lamang bilang isang magaling na kasangkapan ay sa kanan sa kamay, at ang kanyang pagkakaroon theorems ay pa rin tama .