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Mathematics Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss
- A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them,…
- In mathematics there are no true controversies.
- In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without my having reached…
- It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.
- Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.
- Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and…
- Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
- Mathematics is the queen of the sciences
- There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation…
- I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.
- It may be true that people who are merely mathematicians have certain specific shortcomings; however that is not the fault of mathematics, but is true…
- I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most…
- It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
- It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is…
- Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics
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- In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race. — Charles Babbage
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon
- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- Education is indoctrination if you're white - subjugation if you're black. — James A. Baldwin
- Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit. — Stefan Banach
- I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. — John Adams
- Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think. — Ambrose Bierce
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