• 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.

  Source: As quoted in The World of Mathematics (1956)

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  German mathematician and physicist
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1. mathematics
2. importance
3. concerning
4. completely
5. province
6. outside

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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. by : Carl Friedrich Gauss

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