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Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

“If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.”

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

“If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it means. Then check the theorem; it could be false. Examine the consequences, verify as many particular instances as are needed to convince yourself of the truth. When you have satisfied yourself that the theorem is true, you can start proving it.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Mean Truth Particular Needed Prove Consequence Math Satisfied Checks Instance Convince Examination Theorems True You Verify

Author:George Polya

“In the higher walks of politics the same sort of thing occurs. The statesman who has gradually concentrated all power within himself ... may have had anything but a public motive... The phrases which are customary on the platform and in the Party Press have gradually come to him to seem to express truths, and he mistakes the rhetoric of partisanship for a genuine analysis of motives... He retires from the world after the world has retired from him.”

World May Seems Truth Science Walks Party Mistake Power Higher Presses Genuine Analysis Phrases Motive Retiring Platforms Rhetoric Retired Statesmen Partisanship

Author:Bertrand Russell

“It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to be able to propagate it and get it recognized.”

Enough Truth Able Science Prove Discovery

Author:Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors”

Truth Science Difficult Tasks Roots Plant Errors

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession.”

Men May Truth Fine Comfort Truth Is Draws Strive Possession Every Man Search For Truth

Book:Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

Source: Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words

“It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.”

Wells Sometimes Truth Science Attention Mistake Draws Errors

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“It is true that the trees are for human use. But these are aesthetic uses as well as commercial uses-uses for the spiritual wealth of all, as well as the material wealth of some.”

Humans Wells Use Truth Spiritual Science Spirit Wealth Tree Materials Aesthetic Material Wealth Spiritual Wealth

Author:Joseph LeConte

“It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.”

Men May Truth Science Stars Destiny Controlled

Author:Arthur C. Clarke

“Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which are drawn from the centre of the circle to the circumference are not equal, he understands by the circle, at all events for the time, something else than mathematicians understand by it.”

Ifs Men Truth Science Names Understanding Lines Events Equal Errors Circles Application Mathematician Centre Nomenclature

Author:Baruch Spinoza

“Much scientific truth proved to be as hypothetical as poetic allegory. The relationshiip of those rod-connected blue and red balls to an actual atomic structure was about the same as the relationship of Christianity to the fish or the Lamb.”

Truth Christianity Red Balls Blue Structure Fishes Connected Poetic Science And Religion Lambs Allegory Hypothetical Scientific Truth Atomic Structure

Author:Tom Robbins

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