"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject,……" — Carl Friedrich Gauss
"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again."
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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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More Clarified Quotes
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Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and…
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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As in creating some significant work the artist first experiences something akin to dream awareness that becomes clarified in the…
— Thomas Berry
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Life is a life-long assignment that must be constantly analyzed, clarified, figured out, and responded to appropriately.
— Chip Kidd
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When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have…
— R. A. Lafferty
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The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified…
— William Jones
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Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly…
— Gaston Bachelard
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What we need to do first is to find out how big the migration problem is and what the economic…
— Ernesto Zedillo
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Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited…
— Hjalmar Branting
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Pass legislation. When Obama signs, you've shown seriousness and the ability to govern. When he vetoes, you've clarified the differences…
— Charles Krauthammer
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