"To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings."

Carl Friedrich Gauss, German Mathematician

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"To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings."

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"You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length."

Time, Words, Writing

"Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated."

Science, Dignity, Solution

"I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect."

Conviction, Geometry, Intellect, Necessity

"I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible."

Doubt, Lawyers, Proof, Sense

"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."

Life, Clothes, Spring

"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."

Mathematicians,

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

Darkness, Order

"The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic."

Arithmetic, Numbers

"To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years."

Work, Content, Mind, Past

"To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings."

Occupation, Talk

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"The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure."

Gerard Debreu, French Mathematician

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"To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings."

Carl Friedrich Gauss, German Mathematician

Occupation, Talk

"But I'm a rock 'n' roll singer; that's my livelihood, my occupation."

Little Richard, American Musician

Occupation,

"That can be achieved by termination of Israeli occupation to the territories according to the international resolutions related, so the Palestinian State can be establish with Jerusalem as capital for such State."

Ali A. Saleh, American Politician

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"Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations."

Frederick Sanger, English Scientist

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"Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941."

Roald Hoffmann, Polish Scientist

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