Rudolf Wagner Quotes

“{In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner}

I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not.”
― Carl Friedrich Gauss

“[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, American Judaism in Transition: The Secularization of a Religious Community