[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.

Gerhard Falk

Mots clés biology belief deism superstition skepticism meditation reincarnation planet gauss belief-in-bible carl-friedrich-gauss rudolf-wagner skepticism-of-religion

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He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate perceptions as being in the present into doubt. And thus, he couldn’t—beyond a hint of skepticism—say that he truly existed right now and in this moment, but instead it seemed more rational to assume that he simply existed and nothing more.

Ashim Shanker

Mots clés skepticism ontology solipsism past-and-future past-and-present time-slipping perception-and-reality approximate-truth

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To demand the absolute and to be content with absolutely nothing else results in a skepticism.

Bernard J.F. Lonergan

Mots clés epistemology skepticism

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