In such apparent accidents which finally produce such a dec… - Carl Friedrich Gauss

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In such apparent accidents which finally produce such a decisive influence on one s whole life, one is inclined to recognize the tools of a higher hand. The great enigma of life never becomes clear to us here below.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician, astronomer and physicist.

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Native Name: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß

Alternative Names: Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss • Karl Gauss • C. F. Gauss • Carl Friedrich Gauß • Gauß, Carl Friedrich • Gauss

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Yes! The world would be nonsense, the whole creation an absurdity without immortality.

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work … coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

Das Ergebnis habe ich schon, jetzt brauche ich nur noch den Weg, der zu ihm führt.

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