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A glimmer of light is better than no illumination at all. — John James Cowperthwaite

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

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

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

fish and visitors stink in 3 days. — Jeff Kinney

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

Yes I am planning to move in with Justin we haven't had sex, but it's very tempting. — Britney Spears

Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems. — 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

There are no ugly women; there are only women who do not know how to look pretty. — Diana Polska

I might live in Manhattan or Edinburgh or Cardiff. I think of myself as without nationality. — M. J. Hyland

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

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

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

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

In mathematics there are no true controversies. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

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

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

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

A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much. — Anne Lamott

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

In order to fight any issue, it is necessary to fight for something, not merely against something. — Ayn Rand

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ... — Farkas Bolyai

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

You can believe that he was taught to love and respect all mankind - but to fear no man. — Wellington Mara

The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage. — George Bernard Shaw

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

Don't get hung up about the problems today- Jesus is already there. — Victoria Peace Green

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

The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it — Albert Camus

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

God does arithmetic. — 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

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

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves. — Ada King Lovelace

{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

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