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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. — Felix Klein

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

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. — 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

It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib. — Steven Levy

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

The moral high ground is a lovely place. It won't stop a missile, though. It won't alter the trajectory of a gauss round. — James S.A. Corey

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

The Infinite is only a manner of speaking. — 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

{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

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

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

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

God does arithmetic. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

Dostoevsky gives me more than any scientist, more than Gauss. — Albert Einstein

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

Communication engineering began with Gauss, Wheatstone, and the first telegraphers. — Norbert Wiener

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

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