Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

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

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

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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

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But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.

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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.

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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.

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There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.

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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.

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