Carl Gauss Quotes

"God does arithmetic."

"Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron."

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

"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."

"Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and number theory is the queen of mathematics."

"When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false."

"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries."

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

"The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal themselves in all their beauty only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it."

"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."

"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."

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. The never-satisfied man is so strange; if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms for others."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com

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