Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes and sayings page 2 (mathematician). These are the last 7 out of 17 quotes we have.

“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.”

“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.”

“Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.”

“God does arithmetic.”

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

“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.”

“To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.”

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