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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

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Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

~Carl Friedrich Gauss

Topics: Each Mathematicians Other Shoulders Stand

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I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

~Carl Friedrich Gauss

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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.

~Carl Friedrich Gauss

Topics: False He Philosopher Says Something Then Trivial True

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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

Topics: Am Arrive Had How Know Long Long Time Results Them Time I Am

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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

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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

Topics: Arithmetic Distinguishing Factors Important Known Latter Most Numbers Prime Problem Resolving The Most Important Useful

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

~Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

~Carl Friedrich Gauss

Topics: Again Away Darkness Exhausted Go Order Subject Then Turn

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God does arithmetic.

~Carl Friedrich Gauss

Topics: Arithmetic Does God

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Mathematician

Born: April 30th, 1777

Died: February 23rd, 1855

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