Kingdom of Hanover
Quotes & Thinkers from Kingdom of Hanover
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"Thesis. Finite, Representable. Antithesis. Infinite, System of Notions lying at the limit of the representable."
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Bernhard Riemann
Mathematics
1826–1866
"Thesis. Finite, Representable. Antithesis. Infinite, System of Notions lying at the limit of the representable."
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
Science
1777–1855
"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori."
48 quotes
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Literature
1825–1895
"The prohibition of the expression of the sex drive, i.e., between consenting adults in private, lies outside the legal sphere."
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"There remains only the assumption that the ponderable masses within the rigid earth-crust are supporters of the soul-life of the earth."
— Bernhard Riemann, b. 1826View →
"III. Thesis. A God working in Time. . Antithesis. A timeless, personal, omniscient, al-mighty, all-benevolent God ."
— Bernhard Riemann, b. 1826View →
"Mind-masses entering the soul appear to us as ideas, the quality of the latter depending on the inner state of the former."
— Bernhard Riemann, b. 1826View →
"If... part of the related mind-masses hang together among themselves, then these are not only immediately excited but also mediately and consequently in proportion more powerfully than the rest."
— Bernhard Riemann, b. 1826View →
"From the standpoint of exact natural science, of the explanation of nature from causes, the assumption of an earth-soul is... an hypothesis for the explanation of Being and of the historical development of the organic world."
— Bernhard Riemann, b. 1826View →