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Carl Friedrich Gauss

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CARL GAUSS
God does arithmetic
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored fo...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is no...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that ...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one,...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darknes...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which gra...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrate...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into ...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they wou...
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the m...
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
CARL GAUSS
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics
CARL GAUSS
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they wou...
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a footnote on Friedrich Nietzsche.
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Economics is half psychology and half Grade Three arithmetic, and the U.S. does not now have either ...
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications...
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Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of s...
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"Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one ...
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The different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
LEWIS CARROLL (PSEUDONYM OF REV. CHARLES L. DODGSON)
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
UNKNOWN
"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot."
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You can do the arithmetic.
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it ...
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. Wh...
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Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibili...
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it ...
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Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them.
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It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression.
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Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder...
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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idea...
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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident...
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a...
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing languag...
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Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on ...
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out o...
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What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like a...
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Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with l...
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
You can't do that to Carl.
E. L. DOCTOROW
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
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In madness, I thought I was the most important person in the world.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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A cloud is made of billows upon billows upon billows that look like clouds. As you come closer to a ...
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The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have bee...
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, re...
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The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producin...
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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or...
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Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscan...
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to ta...
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of...
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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it ne...
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual forc...
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There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with whic...
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In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
CHARLES BABBAGE
The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almo...
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The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
CHARLES BABBAGE
Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the...
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes...
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A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine i...
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I have such a stressful job that the only way I can get it out of my mind is by running hard.
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I have had a dream indicating rather clearly that I am on the way to being hetero, though I don'...
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I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
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No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brai...
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A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
RENE DESCARTES
When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.
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Everything is self-evident.
RENE DESCARTES
An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it ou...
RENE DESCARTES
Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries.
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with trut...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I conjure you, my brethren, to remain faithful to earth, and do not believe those who speak unto you...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The strongest knowledge (that of the total freedom of the human will) is nonetheless the poorest in ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, b...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.
FRIEDRICH HEBBEL
In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchen...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philo...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding; in reality there has been only one Christian,...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all th...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the ru...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Out of life's school of war: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Wir haben den Begriff "Zweck" erfunden: in der Realität fehlt der Zweck... Man ist nothwendig, man ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
I put forward at once — lest I break with my style, which is affirmative
and deals with cont...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
The perfect woman indulges in literature just as she indulges in a small sin: as an experiment, in p...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
When the anarchist, as the mouthpiece of the declining levels of society, insists on 'right,'...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Christianity is the metaphysics of the hangman.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
My taste, which may be the opposite of a tolerant taste, is in this case very far from saying Yes in...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estima...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Even the most courageous among us only rarely has the courage to face what he already knows.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instinc...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Only ideas won by walking have any value.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experience...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Do you want to go along with others? or go on ahead? or go off on your own?...you must know what ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Which is it? Is man only a blunder of God? Or is God only a blunder of man?
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
For truth to tell, dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble educ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
My conception of freedom. — The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE