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

~Carl Friedrich Gauss

Topics: Before Brilliant Clothes Eternal Life Like Me New Spring Stands

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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.

~Carl Friedrich Gauss

Topics: Almost Amount Content Entire Exactly Mind My Own Myself Occupied Own Past Praise Praising Thirty Thirty-Five Which Work Would Years

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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

Topics: Admit Cannot Humility Minds Must Number Our Outside Prescribe Product Properties Purely Reality Space We Cannot While

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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

Topics: Am Because Chiefly Far Few Know Length More Much Never Possible Said Satisfied Slowly Takes Than Time Until Words Write Writing You I Am I Write

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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

Topics: Celebrated Dignity Elegant Every Explored Further Itself Means Possible Problem Require Science Seems Solution

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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

Topics: Am Cannot Coming Conviction Geometry Human Intellect Least More More And More Necessity Neither Nor Our I Am

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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.

~Carl Friedrich Gauss

Topics: Added Almost Certain Certainly Coupled Divorced Exclusive Further Idle Likewise Might Occupation Other Shortcomings Specific Talk Whenever

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Mathematician

Born: April 30th, 1777

Died: February 23rd, 1855

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