More from Carl Friedrich Gauss

  1. I will add that I have recently received from Hungary a little paper on non-Euclidean geometry in which I rediscover all my own ideas and r…
  2. It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it…
  3. To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which …
  4. Ask her to wait a moment- I am almost done.
  5. 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 c…
  6. I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
  7. It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have…
  8. If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

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