Carl Friedrich Gauss

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

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He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.{Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss}

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The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as a basis, it is scarcely conceivable that anyone else would have discovered it. I do not hesitate to confess that to a certain extent a similar pleasure may be found by absorbing ourselves in questions of pure geometry

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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he kept the prefix summus

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and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians