To such idle talk it might further be ad... by Carl Friedrich Gauss

Occupation Astronomy Mathematician physicist Number Theory

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.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

Other quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss

Content Past Mind Work Years

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.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

Results

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

Science

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

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

Conviction

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.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

Mathematicians

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

- Carl Friedrich Gauss

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