16 quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

4.0 · 63 votes

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God does arithmetic.

God

5.0 · 61 votes · 167 reads

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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

Impossibility

3.2 · 41 votes

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I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

Time

3.5 · 56 votes

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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.

Mathematics

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Art and Culture
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
3.7 · 40 votes · 187 reads
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Science and Technology
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
3.5 · 43 votes · 141 reads
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Nature
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
3.8 · 40 votes · 194 reads
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Science and Technology
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
3.1 · 26 votes · 190 reads
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Virtues
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
4.7 · 53 votes · 2 reads
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Science and Technology
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
3.9 · 5 votes · 61 reads
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Society
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
4.2 · 32 votes · 142 reads
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Feelings
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.
3.5 · 62 votes · 146 reads
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Thought and Reason
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
3.6 · 43 votes · 153 reads
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Thought and Reason
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
3.1 · 6 votes · 36 reads
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Time
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.
3.2 · 25 votes · 3 reads
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