Carl Friedrich Gauss

"Every challenge is an opportunity in disguise."

"The path to enlightenment is paved with questions."

"Courage is facing fear with determination."

"The bonds of family are stronger than any force."

"Faith in oneself is the foundation of all achievement."

"The study of history teaches us about ourselves."

"Innovation requires both passion and precision."

"Mathematics is the queen of sciences, and number theory is the queen of mathematics."

"I confess that Fermat's Last Theorem has much occupied my curiosity."

"The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal themselves in proportion to the increase of our understanding."

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

"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply as I have, they would see its beauty."

"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders, building toward infinity."

"The problem of the distribution of primes is the most important in mathematics."

"A man is in the way to do something if he is conscious of difficulty. He is in the way to do nothing if he is conscious of nothing."

"The dignity of the science demands that every true deduction from its principles should be received."

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"The true mathematician has beauty, harmony, and proportion in their work."

"To understand one's place in the cosmos requires understanding the mathematics that governs it."

"We must admit with humility that, while counting is the easiest of things, numbers are truly infinite."

"Patience and perseverance are the twin virtues of all great achievement."

"The mind must be capable of receiving ideas which it had not conceived before."

"Life presents us with problems; mathematics teaches us to solve them."

"A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician."

"In mathematics, as in life, the path least traveled often leads to discovery."

"The greatest mathematicians are those who see patterns where others see only chaos."

"I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them."

"The laws of nature are written in the language of mathematics."

"To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."

"Nothing is more necessary than to know the extent of our knowledge."