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But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss About the proof of Wilson's theorem. Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801)

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I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

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All the measurements in the world do not balance one theorem by which the science of eternal truths is actually advanced.

The study of Euler's works will remain the best school for the different fields of mathematics and nothing else can replace it.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

The way I have taken seems not to lead to the goal, but much rather to make the truth of geometry doubtful.

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