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Carl Friedrich Gauss [1777-1855] German

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, mechanics, electrostatics, astronomy, matrix theory, and optics.

Science, Courage, Knowledge, Learning, Space, Time

Quote	Tags	Rank
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.	Knowledge, Learning	101
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.	Time	102
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.		103
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.		104
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.		105
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.		106
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.	Courage, Science	107
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.		108
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.		109
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.	Science	110
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.		111
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.		112
God does arithmetic.		113
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.	Space	114
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.		115
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.		116
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.		117

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