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
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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
God does arithmetic.
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
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
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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