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"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
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"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
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"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
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"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
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"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
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"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."
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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
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"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
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"Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years."
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"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
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Explore more quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss
"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."
Conviction
"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."
Time
"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
Mathematicians
"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."
Men
"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years."
Work
"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."
Result
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
Knowledge
"To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings."
Occupation
"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 proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible."
Doubt
"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."
Life
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