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• ...as our friend Zach has often noted, in our days those who do the best for astronomy are not the salaried university…
• It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.…
• My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering…
• As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics,…
• Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
• If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
• Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.
• Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
• A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of…
• In mathematics there are no true controversies.
• In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without…
• It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for…

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