Carl Friedrich Gauss

The true scientist is a person who is passionate about his work.

I have always believed that mathematics is a powerful tool for understanding the universe.

The most important thing in science is to be open-minded and to embrace new ideas.

I have always tried to be a good person and to live a meaningful life.

The true scientist is a person who is dedicated to the pursuit of truth.

I have always believed that mathematics is a source of endless wonder and fascination.

I have had my results for a long time; but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

The problem of constructing a regular heptadecagon by ruler and compasses is not so difficult as it might appear. It is only necessary to know how to divide a circle into seventeen equal parts.

I am not one of those who have the gift of being able to write quickly and fluently. I am a slow and laborious writer, and I often spend days on a single paragraph.

I confess that I am a great lover of mathematics, but I am also a great lover of truth, and I believe that mathematics is the most beautiful and perfect expression of truth.

The most beautiful theorems are those whose consequences are most important.

I have been so absorbed in my work that I have forgotten the world and everything in it.

I have often said that if I had not been a mathematician, I should have been a philologist.

The problem of constructing a regular polygon of n sides by ruler and compasses is not so difficult as it might appear. It is only necessary to know how to divide a circle into n equal parts.

I have often been asked why I have not published more. My answer is that I have always preferred to publish what is perfect rather than what is merely good.

I have often been accused of being too critical. My answer is that I am only critical of what is not perfect.

Mathematics is the non-empirical science par excellence and its conclusions are necessary and certain.

The value of a problem is not so much in coming to the solution as in the process of working it out.

How can you expect me to be satisfied with the mere knowledge of the truth, when I have not yet succeeded in finding the way to it?

I confess that I am not a friend of the word 'proof' in mathematics, because it is too often used in a sense which is not justified.