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Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

Theory attracts practice as the magnet attracts iron.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Math, Practice, Iron

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
Time, Writing, Math
"Calculus Gems". Book by George F. Simmons, 1992.

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
Time, Math, Science
"The Mind and the Eye: A Study of the Biologist's Standpoint". Book by A. Arber, 1954.

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Humility, Math, Reality
Letter to Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, 1830.

Mathematics is the queen of science, and arithmetic the queen of mathematics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Queens, Math, Arithmetic

There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Lying, Math, Science
"The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.

Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Math, Relation, Concerned

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.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Mean, Math, Two
Letter to Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on May 14, 1826. "Calculus Gems". Book by George F. Simmons, 1992.

The higher arithmetic presents us with an inexhaustible store of interesting truths - of truths, too, which are not isolated, but stand in a close internal connection, and between which, as our knowledge increases, we are continually discovering new and sometimes wholly unexpected ties.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Math, Ties, Interesting
"Preface to Eisenstein's Mathematische Abhandlungen", Berlin, 1847.

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Success, Math, Two
"Mathematical Circles Squared". Book by Howard W. Eves, 1972.

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Queens, Math, Arithmetic
"Gauss zum Gedächtniss". Book by Wolfgang Sartorius von Waltershausen, 1856.

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. . . Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.

Carl Friedrich Gauss
Math, Science, Mechanic
"Solid Shape". Book by Jan J. Koenderink, 1990.

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