Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes, Thoughts and images

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms!

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.

The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

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

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

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

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude, which is never permissible in mathematics.

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not, and, you are much happier than I.

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

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

It is always noteworthy that all those who seriously study this science conceive a sort of passion for it.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.

Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

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