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[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss][Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he did not believe in the Bible but that he had meditated a great deal on the future of the human soul and speculated on the possibility of the soul being reincarnated on another planet. Evidently, Gauss was a Deist with a good deal of skepticism concerning religion.

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses _

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method__ore daring than anything that the history of philosophy records__f Lobachevsky and Riemann, Gauss and Sylvester. Indeed, mathematics, the indispensable tool of the sciences, defying the senses to follow its splendid flights, is demonstrating today, as it never has been demonstrated before, the supremacy of the pure reason.

The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won__ stop a missile, though. It won__ alter the trajectory of a gauss round.