Angel Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound... { His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare }”

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

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

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

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

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

— 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.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss