We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a p... - Carl Friedrich Gauss

This quote is attributed to Carl Friedrich Gauss.

"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds."

Carl Friedrich Gauss Philosophy

Mathematician and Physicist German 1777–1855

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