"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment. When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again; The never-satisfied man is so strange—if he has completed a structure, then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully, but in order to begin another. I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus, who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered, stretches out his arms again for others."
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Carl Friedrich Gauss (Sep 2, 1808) letter to , as quoted by , Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science (2004 edition of 1995 first printing) p. 416.
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