Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematician

1777-04-30 – 1855-02-23

Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician and scientist who made foundational contributions to number theory, statistics, and physics.

Quotes by 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 takes far more time than writing at length.
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The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.
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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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Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
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