Quotes from Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Sophie Germain proved to the world that even a woman can accomplish something in the most rigorous and abstract of sciences and for that reason would well have deserved an honorary degree.

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.

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

God does arithmetic.

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.