To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almos…

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would…

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

In my opinion instruction is very purposeless for such individuals who do no want merely to collect a mass of knowledge, but are mainly interested in…

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

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 …

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

In mathematics there are no true controversies.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss