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Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science [the theory of numbers] conceive a sort of passion for it.

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

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

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

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

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

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

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

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: In mathematics there are no true controversies.

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

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 quotes: Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

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

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.

I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.

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

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

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: {In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner}I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not.

{In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner}

I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not.

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: Ask her to wait a moment I am almost done.

Ask her to wait a moment I am almost done.

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: Mathematics is the queen of the sciences

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

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

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...

{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare}

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: God does arithmetic.

God does arithmetic.

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ... , which is never permissible in mathematics.

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

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

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

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

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes: His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.

His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.