Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.
– Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
– Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.
– 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
Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
– Carl Friedrich Gauss
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
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