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Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Age: 77 †
Born: 1777
Born: April 30
Died: 1855
Died: February 23
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Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.
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Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.
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Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
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We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.
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Sin2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it should it be feared that sin2 φ might become ambiguous, which would perhaps never occur, or at most very rarely when speaking of sin(φ2), well then, let us write (sin φ)2, but not sin2 φ, which by analogy should signify sin (sin φ)
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. . . Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.
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It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
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It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.
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I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.
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In mathematics there are no true controversies.
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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.
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Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
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I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.
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I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
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His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess to thy laws my services are bound.
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