I added this page especially for those that are doing a paper on Gauss, and need some critical commentaries to beef up their papers. I know, my quotes aren't very impressive, or maybe it's because I don't have a "Ph.D." after my name. In any case, these should really help!
"But how to describe to you my admiration and astonishment at seeing my esteemed correspondent Monsieur LeBlanc metamorphose himself into this illustrious personage who gives such a brilliant example of what I would find it difficult to believe. The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it. But when a woman, who because of her sex and our prejudices encounters infinitely more obstacles that an man in familiarizing herself with complicated problems, succeeds nevertheless in surmounting these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of them, without doubt she must have the noblest courage, quite extraordinary talents and superior genius."
-Carl Friedrich Gauss Letter to Sophie Germain; circa April 1807) Contributed by Jeni Rae Duschak.