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Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855)

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.
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In J. R. Newman (ed.) The World of Mathematics, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1956. p. 314.
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