No contradictions will arise as long as Finite Man does not mistake the infinite for something fixed, as long as he is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds,… — 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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