Carl Friedrich Gauss

1777–1855 · German mathematician and physicist

Topics: mathematics, learning

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

  — Carl Friedrich Gauss

• The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal themselves in all their beauty only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

  — Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

  — Carl Friedrich Gauss

• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

  — Carl Friedrich Gauss

• Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

  — Carl Friedrich Gauss