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You say that faith is a gift; this is perhaps the most correct thing that can be said about it.
Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955)
Yes! The world would be nonsense, the whole creation an absurdity without immortality.
Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955)
If the object of all human investigation were but to produce in cognition a reflection of the world as it exists, of what value would be all its labor and pains, which could result only in vain repetition, in an imitation within the soul of that which exists without it?
Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955)
I scarcely believe that in psychology data are present which can be mathematically evaluated. But one cannot know this with certainty, without having made the experiment. God alone is in possession of the mathematical bases of psychic phenomena.
Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955)
One is forced to the view, for which there is so much evidence even though without rigorous scientific basis, that besides this material world another, second, purely spiritual world order exists, with just as many diversities as that in which we live-—we are to participate in it.
Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955)
One day he said: For the soul there is a satisfaction of a higher type; the material is not at all necessary. Whether I apply mathematics to a couple of clods of dirt, which we call planets, or to purely arithmetical problems, it's just the same; the latter have only a higher charm for me.
Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955)