To praise it would amount to praising my... by Carl Friedrich Gauss

Work Years Mind Past Content

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

Other quotes by 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

Doubt Sense

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

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

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

Occupation

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

Humility

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

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