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
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 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… — 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
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
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard. — 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
Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics. — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. — 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
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
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
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
Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics — 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
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
[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 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
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
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
“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
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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