"It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
-Carl Friedrich Gauss
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"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.“
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