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It May Be True That People Who Are Merely Mathematicians Have Certain Specific Shortcomings; However That Is Not The Fault Of Mathematics, But Is True Of Every Exclusive Occupation. Likewise A Mere Linguist, A Mere Jurist, A Mere Soldier, A Mere Merchant, And So Forth. One Could Add Such Idle Chatter That When A Certain Exclusive Occupation Is Often Connected With Certain Specific Shortcomings, It Is On The Other Hand Always Free Of Certain Other Shortcomings.

The Total Number Of Dirichlet's Publications Is Not Large: Jewels Are Not Weighed On A Grocery Scale.

As Is Well Known The Principle Of Virtual Velocities Transforms All Statics Into A Mathematical Assignment, And By D'alembert's Principle For Dynamics, The Latter Is Again Reduced To Statics. Although It Is Is Very Much In Order That In Gradual Training Of Science And In The Instruction Of The Individual The Easier Precedes The More Difficult, The Simple Precedes The More Complicated, The Special Precedes The General, Yet The Min, Once It Has Arrived At The Higher Standpoint, Demands The Reverse Process Whereby All Statics Appears Only As A Very Special Case Of Mechanics.

The Higher Arithmetic Presents Us With An Inexhaustible Store Of Interesting Truths - Of Truths, Too, Which Are Not Isolated, But Stand In A Close Internal Connection, And Between Which, As Our Knowledge Increases, We Are Continually Discovering New And Sometimes Wholly Unexpected Ties.

It Is Not Knowledge, But The Act Of Learning, Not Possession But The Act Of Getting There, Which Grants The Greatest Enjoyment. When I Have Clarified And Exhausted A Subject, Then I Turn Away From It, In Order To Go Into Darkness Again; The Never-satisfied Man Is So Strange If He Has Completed A Structure, Then It Is Not In Order To Dwell In It Peacefully,but In Order To Begin Another. I Imagine The World Conqueror Must Feel Thus, Who, After One Kingdom Is Scarcely Conquered, Stretches Out His Arms For Others.