Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
His second motto: Thou, nature, art my Goddess; to thy laws my services are bound. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
You have no idea, how much poetry there is in the calculation of a table of logarithms! — Carl Friedrich Gauss
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
To the distracting occupations belong especially my lecture courses which I am — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths — Carl Friedrich Gauss
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least — Carl Friedrich Gauss