Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 17 quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss (/ɡaʊs/; German: Gauß, pronounced [ɡaʊs] ( listen); Latin: Carolus Fridericus Gauss) (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German mathematician who contributed significantly to many fields, including number theory, algebra, statistics, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, geophysics, electrostatics, astronomy, Matrix theory, and optics. Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum (Latin,... Read full biography of Carl Friedrich Gauss → 1 2 Ctrl → Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. 0 It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. 0 Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders. 0 I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. 0 The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. 0 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... → 0 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... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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