Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics. — 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
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,… — 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… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the… — 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… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics,… — 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,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
A reply to Olbers' attempt in 1816 to entice him to work on Fermat's Theorem. I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service… — 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… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments.… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“I confess that Fermat 's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, for a multitude of such theorems… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Sin 2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin 2 φ… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,… — 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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![“[On Sophie Germain] When a person of the sex which, according to our customs and prejudices, must encounter infinitely more difficulties than men... succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of [number theory], then without doubt she must have the…” quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/221/carl-friedrich-gauss-9412_courage_on-sophie-germain-when-a-person-of-the-s_2237596.jpg)
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