More from Carl Friedrich Gauss

  1. 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, w…
  2. Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
  3. 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 writin…
  4. Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
  5. 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 hu…
  6. The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.
  7. A great part of its theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity o…
  8. When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

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