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The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.
— Carl Joachim Friedrich
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
Democracy means decision by those concerned.
— Carl Friedrich Von Weizsacker
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 enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
In mathematics there are no true controversies.
— 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
Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
— 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 science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.
— 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
Ask her to wait a moment I am almost done.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
Response, when asked how he came upon his theorems.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
{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
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
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.
— Carl Friedrich Von Weizsacker
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
Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...
{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare} — Carl Friedrich Gauss
{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare} — Carl Friedrich Gauss
God does arithmetic.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ... , which is never permissible in mathematics.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...
— Farkas Bolyai
What was once thought can never be unthought.
— Carl Joachim Friedrich
His second motto: Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound.
— Carl Friedrich Gauss