Carl Friedrich Gauss

Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated. ”

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. ”

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

To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. ”