"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again."

Carl Friedrich Gauss, German Mathematician

Darkness, Order

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"When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again."

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