Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955) by Guy Waldo Dunnington. p. 349
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One is forced to the view, for which there is so much evidence even though without rigorous scientific basis, that besides this material world another, second, purely spiritual world order exists, with just as many diversities as that in which we live-—we are to participate in it.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

What It Means

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

About Carl Friedrich Gauss

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