"In mathematics there are no true controversies." — Carl Friedrich Gauss
"In mathematics there are no true controversies."
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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 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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Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.
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We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the…
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I don't create controversies. They're there long before I open my mouth. I just bring them to your attention.
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I…
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One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable…
— Arthur Schuster
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No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy,…
— Rudolf Virchow
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Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact,…
— John Donne
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Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the…
— Luis Fernando Verissimo
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For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our Founding Fathers. They set…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
— George Washington
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Rediscovering the controversies that occupied early Christianity sharpens our awareness of the major issue in the whole debate, then and…
— Elaine Pagels
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But I hope that by the decision and authority of wise princes that sometime devout and learned men from the…
— Philipp Melanchthon
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Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ...…
— Leonhard Euler
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