Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

—Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)

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" Mathematics is the queen of sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to render service to astronomy and other natural sciences, but in all relations she is entitled to the first rank."

—Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)

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"Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron."

—Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)

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"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."

—Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)

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"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 (1777-1855)

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

—Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)

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

—Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)

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"The Infinite is only a manner of speaking."

—Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)

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"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."

—Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855)