"I protest against the use of infinite magnitude……" — Carl Friedrich Gauss
"I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics."
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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57 Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss
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...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the…
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the…
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My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a…
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As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle…
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Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
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If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
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Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.
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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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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the…
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In mathematics there are no true controversies.
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In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much…
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It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of…
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Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
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Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
— Ansel Adams
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True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen…
— Honore de Balzac
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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while…
— Honore de Balzac
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in…
— Henry Adams
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into…
— Martha Beck
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A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more…
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
— William Blake
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If a thing loves, it is infinite.
— William Blake
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If you have a great love of singing, supported by others' fondness for your voice, then it is worth making…
— Andrea Bocelli
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