"It is always noteworthy that all those who……" — Carl Friedrich Gauss
"It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it."
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
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57 Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss
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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the…
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My young friend, I wish that science would intoxicate you as much as our good Göttingen beer! Upon seeing a…
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As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle…
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Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
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If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.
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Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.
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Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the…
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In mathematics there are no true controversies.
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In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much…
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Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.
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