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Quotes by Karl Friedrich Gauss
(1777 - 1855)


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ResearchWhen I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
- (Mathematician)
ResearchI have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
- (Mathematician)
ResearchYou 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.
- (mathematician)
WorkingAsk her to wait a moment -- I am almost done.
- (while working, when informed his wife was dying)
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