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Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

“The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.”

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Carl Friedrich Gauss (April 30, 1777 - February 23, 1855) was a German mathematician who is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He made significant contributions to mathematics, physics, and astronomy. more

“Sin2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin2 φ might become ambiguous, which would perhaps never occur, or at most very rarely when speaking of sin(φ2), well then, let us write (sin φ)2, but not sin2 φ, which by analogy should signify sin (sin φ)”

Should Writing Wells Made Use Might Sin Analogies Ambiguous

Author:Carl Friedrich Gauss

“He said I couldn't do (off the field) what I did when I was 23 or 24, and I paid attention to him. Damn it, I got a trainer and went to spring training in the best shape of my career and in 1985 had the best season I ever had and we won the World Series. Before that, I didn't know how long I was going to play. That talk with Mr. Fogelman was the most inspiring talk I ever had with anyone.”

Knows World Long Said Play Attention Careers Know How Fields Shapes Spring Training Seasons Paid Series Damn Trainers World Series Spring Training Most Inspiring

Author:George Brett

“If anyone stays away (after the 1981 strike), my response is this - those people had no right to ever come to the park, because they aren't true baseball fans.”

People Ifs Fans Baseball Response Strikes Parks Baseball Fans

Author:George Brett

“Pete Rose is baseball.”

Baseball Rose

Author:Sparky Anderson

“There are five freedoms: The freedom to see and hear what is; The freedom to say what you feel and think; The freedom to feel what you actually feel; The freedom to ask for what you want; The freedom to take risks on your own behalf.”

Thinking Want Feels Asks Freedom Five Risk What You Want Behalf

Author:Virginia Satir

“We will have to abandon the philosophy of Democritus and the concept of elementary particles. We should accept instead the concept of elementary symmetries.”

Should Philosophy Accepting Concepts Abandon Particles Symmetry

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“Thus, the more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known, and conversely.”

Known Position Determined Momentum Uncertainty Principle

Author:Werner Heisenberg

“The physicist may be satisfied when he has the mathematical scheme and knows how to use for the interpretation of the experiments. But he has to speak about his results also to non-physicists who will not be satisfied unless some explanation is given in plain language. Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be the criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.”

“The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.”

Running Desire Nations Concern Extremes

Book:Possible Worlds

Source: Possible Worlds

“It is as disastrous to true government in the state, and home, to teach all womankind to submit to the authority of man, as divinely ordained, as it is to teach all mankind to bow down to the authority of kings and Popes, as divinely ordained.”

Men States Home Government Teach Mankind Kings Authority Bows Submit Pope

Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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