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Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes

Deutsch Mathematician April 30, 1777 – February 23, 1855

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Carl Friedrich Gauss quote: "Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and..."
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss quote: "I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know..."
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss quote: "God does arithmetic."
God does arithmetic. Carl Friedrich Gauss
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings. Carl Friedrich Gauss
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss quote: "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences"
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss quote: "The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to..."
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss quote: "When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn..."
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. Carl Friedrich Gauss
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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. Carl Friedrich Gauss
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. Carl Friedrich Gauss

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