Gerhard Falk (1995). American Judaism in Transition: The Secularization of a Religious Community. University Press of America. str. 121. ISBN9780761800163. Pristupljeno 24. VI 2012. »Evidently, Gauss was a Deist with a good deal of skepticism concerning religion but incorporating a great deal of philosophical interests in the Big Questions, that is. the immortality of the soul, the afterlife and the meaning of man's existence.«