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I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most…

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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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