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Mathematical Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss
- As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is…
- If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
- Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
- In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached…
- I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.
- I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the…
- I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves…
- With a thousand joys I would accept a nonacademic job for which industriousness, accuracy, loyalty, and such are sufficient without specialized knowledge, and which would…
- I am giving this winter two courses of lectures to three students, of which one is only moderately prepared, the other less than moderately, and…
- We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we…
- If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries
More Mathematical Quotes
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- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle
- If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already… — Saint Augustine
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
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- The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable… — Annie Besant
- As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his… — Annie Besant
- My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is… — David Bohm
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole
- Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar