We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.


Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1830)

Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely...

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely...

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely...

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely...