We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori. Carl Friedrich Gauss More Quotes by Carl Friedrich Gauss More Quotes From Carl Friedrich Gauss I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of. Carl Friedrich Gauss mathematical work littles God does arithmetic. Carl Friedrich Gauss does arithmetic god