Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

Math is sometimes called the science of patterns.

If I like something, I then have to study every single aspect of it to find out if there's more things that I would like, and it's just this weird hunger to want more. I always feel like there's so much that exists.

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

The microscopic world became my obsession.

I love algebra. Love it.

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

Brazil, I'm totally obsessed. I've been going since I was 17, and the first time I went, I fell in love with it.

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film.

I tend to obsess over my passions.

When something really grabs me, I dive into it.

I'm a very lazy person by nature. I have to be really engaged, and then I go straight from lazy to obsessive. I couldn't study chemistry, but I could memorize all the books for Dungeons and Dragons. It was ridiculous. The trick is to find what I like to do.

All my life I've encountered people who were obsessed with one particular class of object or experience, who were constantly pursuing that thing. Since I was a little kid, I hadn't afforded myself the opportunity, I guess, to have a hobby.

I happen to love science... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.

Oh yes, I love gadgets.

Since I was a kid, I've always been obsessed with animation.

I had fallen in love with doing television.

I've been a fan of horror and studying it for as long as I can remember.

When it's football time, that's where I am - the studying, the working, the practicing, everything.

My older brother was the person who got me interested in science in general. He used to tell me what he learned in school. My first memory of mathematics is probably the time that he told me about the problem of adding numbers from 1 to 100.

My interest in science started quite early. My earliest school recollection, from age 6, is actually of mathematics, realizing that one could fill an entire page with digits and never come to the largest possible number, so I saw what was meant by infinity.

You should enter science because you are fascinated by it. That's what I did.

I fell in love with electricity.

Design is my biggest love. It consumes me!

I love physics.