Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 2004-10-14
- Publisher
- The Mathematical Association of America
- Retrieved
- May 18, 2012
- ISBN
- _dce9Jaq7i
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1847 Speculation About Extraterrestrials
In general I would be cautious against … plays of fancy and would not make way for their reception into scientific astronomy, which must have quite a different character. Laplace's cosmogenic hypotheses belong in that class. Indeed, I do not deny that I sometimes amuse myself in a similar manner, only I would never…
Teaching is a Waste of Time
I have a true aversion to teaching. The perennial business of a professor of mathematics is only to teach the ABC of his science; most of the few pupils who go a step further, and usually to keep the metaphor, remain in the process of gathering information, become only Halbwisser [one who has superficial knowledge of…