God does arithmetic.
From Carl Friedrich Gauss
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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