71 Quotes by 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 well have deserved an honorary degree.

Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

Thou, nature, art my goddess; to thy laws my services are bound...{His second motto, from King Lear by Shakespeare}

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

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

Pauca sed matura. (Few, but ripe.)

{In a letter to his friend Rudolf Wagner}I believe you are more believing in the Bible than I. I am not.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.