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.


As quoted in The World of Mathematics (1956) Edited by J. R. Newman

Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or...

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or...

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or...

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or...