German - Mathematician | April 30, 1777 - February 23, 1855
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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 greatest enjoyment.
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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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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.
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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.
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I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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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.
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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.
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God does arithmetic.
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