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Mathematics is the Queen of the Sciences, and Arithmetic the Queen of Mathematics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematics... is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Yes! The world would be nonsense, the whole creation an absurdity without immortality.

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
You say that faith is a gift; this is perhaps the most correct thing that can be said about it.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.
About the proof of Wilson's theorem

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Astronomy and Pure Mathematics are the magnetic poles toward which the compass of my mind ever turns.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
All the measurements in the world do not balance one theorem by which the science of eternal truths is actually advanced.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Arc, amplitude, and curvature sustain a similar relation to each other as time, motion, and velocity, or as volume, mass, and density.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
In the Theory of Numbers it happens rather frequently that, by some unexpected luck, the most elegant new truths spring up by induction.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Infinity is only a figure of speech, meaning a limit to which certain ratios may approach as closely as desired, when others are permitted to increase indefinitely.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Referring to the decimal system of numeration or its equivalent (with some base other than 10): To what heights would science now be raised if Archimedes had made that discovery!

Carl Friedrich Gauss
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
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