We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of …

Carl Friedrich Gauss
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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 cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. ✨ Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, 1830.
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