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Carl Friedrich Gauss (Mathematician)

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss wit

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 knowledge

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss writing

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss man

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss time

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss math

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss reality

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss science

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss true

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss darkness

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 equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss men

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss work

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss fact

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss science

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss man

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss divorce

God does arithmetic.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss god

Sin2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin2 φ might become ambiguous, which would perhaps never occur, or at most very rarely when speaking of sin(φ2), well then, let us write (sin φ)2, but not sin2 φ, which by analogy should signify sin (sin φ)

— Carl Friedrich Gauss fear

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