Quotes Tagged With :friedrich

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses....

The man consummatig his life dies his death triumphantly,surrounded by men filled with hope and making....

Master morality is a "yea-saying" attitude where "good" and "bad" are equivalent to "noble" and "despicable"....

Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when....

Is it not curious, that so vast a being as the whale should see the world through so small an eye, and....

[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss][Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor....

These solitary ones who are free in spirit know thatin one thing or another they must constantly put....

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues....

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous....

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored....