Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.”

“It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.”

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

“God does arithmetic.”

“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.”

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

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

“I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half a proof is zero, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.”

“Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord.”

“You have no idea how much poetry is in a table of logarithms.”