Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

Stories are like children. They grow in their own way.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

There is something very independent about French balloons - you feel you couldn't make a pet of one.

Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.

The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Motherhood runs its own way and is measured with another watch that, unfortunately, we can't control.

The complexity of the world is so overwhelming and so present to everyone.

Stars arrive on their own timetable.

Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.

Time and chance reveal all secrets.

Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

The nature of life is that we do not control it.

Sometimes, history sneaks up on you. And sometimes you know it's coming.

I love to see lack of clarity in a performance as well as clarity, as well as trust, as well as the kinds of things that human beings go through. I love to see spontaneity and 'inevitability.' How it gets there is going to shock the hell out of me, but it will get there somehow.

I think you should always bear in mind that entropy is not on your side.

Music is something no one can control.

Our bodies and our minds have their own timing that pay little attention to our cerebral desires. We can't force or expect things to change as fast as we want, but when we put our efforts in the direction of our intention and drop everything else like snow falling, things unfold with ease.

I often don't know what I'll be working on next year or a year from now. There is often a chance meeting, or something that I worked on 10 years ago suddenly becomes important again.

When it's your turn, it's your turn. That's just the way it is.

The best things in life cannot be willed into being.

The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.

Fate isn't some middle-aged man with a squint who won't recognize you if you change your clothes.

The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.