April 30: Carl Friedrich Gauss quotes

Physics Quote of the Day for April 30th.

Carl Friedrich Gauss (30 April 1777 in Braunschweig -- 23 February 1855 in Göttingen)

Quotes can be looked up at wikiquote http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss
"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again. The never-satisfied man is so strange; if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another."

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

"If others would but reflect on mathematical truths as deeply and as continuously as I have, they would make my discoveries."

"You 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."

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[nicholasgonzalez]

Thank you for the video. This man was truly unique.