There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely grea…

Carl Friedrich Gauss
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There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science. ✨ The World of Mathematics. Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.
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