When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn a... - Carl Friedrich Gauss

This quote is attributed to Carl Friedrich Gauss.

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

Carl Friedrich Gauss Creativity

Mathematician and Physicist German 1777–1855

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