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.

Quote by Carl Friedrich Gauss

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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be...

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be...

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry...

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry...

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until...

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until...

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in...

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in...

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into...

The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into...

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in...

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in...

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I...

If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I...

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

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

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of...

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of...

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says...

When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says...

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

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

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but...

It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but...

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation...

To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation...

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

The West remains obsessed by the caste system.

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know...

I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know...

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two...

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two...

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds,...

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds,...

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of...

I have an interest in spirituality, and it opens up so many different areas of...