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

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Before Life Eternal

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.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Slowly Few Know

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Occupation Other Mere

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Seems Dignity

God does arithmetic.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Arithmetic Does

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

Yet Long I Do

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Clarified Go Exhausted

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Enchanting Science Charms

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Distinguishing Problem Known

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 human intellect.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

More And More I Necessity

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Something Then False

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

Possession Knowledge Act

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Sometimes referred to as the Princeps mathematicorum (Latin "the Prince of Mathematicians" or "the foremost of mathematicians") and "greatest mathematician since antiquity" Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians. He referred to mathematics as "the queen of sciences".