A Quote by Karl Friedrich Gauss on doubt, impossibility, lawyers, and proof

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

Karl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855)
Source: G. Simmons Calculus Gems, New York: McGraw Hill inc., 1992.
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