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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…
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.…
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My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a student staggering…
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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 for dynamics,…
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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 impress of…
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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 time, without…
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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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It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics,…
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I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom.
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As a linguist, I see the arbitrariness of strictures editors force on me as a writer.
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A cunning linguist puts his money where his mouth is.
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