Carl Friedrich Gauss

"Mathematics is the queen of the sciences."

"I am still learning."

"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."

"Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire."

"The beauty of geometry lies in its eternal truths."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal."

"A new discovery is not a thing to be feared but to be embraced."

"The highest calling of any mathematician is to serve truth."

"In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

"I have the results, but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."

"Patience is the art of hope."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater."

"The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God."

"Man is lazy and does not like to exert himself more than necessary."

"Nothing is so unbelievable that old history cannot offer to us some example of it."

"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds."

"One must always be careful in making one's final choice."

"The true problems of life are not solved in intellectual terms."

"I would rather have a clear vision of something simple than a confused picture of something complex."

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce."

"Conquer yourself rather than the world."

"God does arithmetic."

"Numbers are the rulers of the world."

"The older one becomes, the more one learns to appreciate one's family."

"In mathematics, there are no shortcuts to success."

"Every great achievement was once considered impossible."

"The beauty of mathematics is in its logic."

"Work, work, and more work is the rule."

"Knowledge is like an endless frontier."

"Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below."