That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the — Carl Friedrich Gauss
We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds — Carl Friedrich Gauss
To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said — Carl Friedrich Gauss
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. — Carl Friedrich Gauss
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to — Carl Friedrich Gauss
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings — Carl Friedrich Gauss
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
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there — Carl Friedrich Gauss
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be — Carl Friedrich Gauss