"The way I have taken seems not to lead to the goal, but much rather to make the truth of geometry doubtful."
— Truth

January 1, 1970

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Carl Friedrich Gauss (1799) as quoted in the BBC & Open University series, "Topics in the History of Mathematics", MA 290 presented by , 0:39.