No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is not led by an acquired habit of mind to regard the infinite as something bounded. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am holding this winter for the first time, and which now cost much… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound... { His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare }” — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
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