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Carl Friedrich Gauss — Portrait after a picture by Gottlieb Biermann / After Christian Albrecht Jensen (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician and physicist

1777–1855

3 quotes, most often on Science.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Letter to Farkas Bolyai (2 September 1808)
- Education
- Knowledge
All the measurements in the world do not balance one theorem by which the science of eternal truths is actually advanced.
March 14, 1824. As quoted in Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (1955) by Guy Waldo Dunnington. p. 360
- Science
The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal themselves in all their beauty only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
Letter to Sophie Germain (30 April 1807)
- Courage
- Science

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