
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book: Dunnington , Gray , Dohse (2004-10-14), Carl Friedrich Gauss: Titan of Science, The Mathematical Association of America, Retrieved on 2012-05-18Source Material [books.google.com]
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18 MAY 2012
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 the subject], for the rarer talents do not want to have themselves educated by lecture courses, but train themselves. And with this thankless work the professor loses his preciou...Folksonomies: education
Folksonomies: education
Quoting Carl Friedrich Gauss: Students who learn by lecturing go on to merely collect more facts, one who expands the boundaries of a field teaches themselves.
18 MAY 2012
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 publish the stuff. My thoughts about the inhabitants of celestial bodies, for example, belong in that category. For my part, I am (contrary to the usual opinion) convinced ... th...Folksonomies: xenobiology
Folksonomies: xenobiology
On the sun trees would be larger, but would break apart if made of the same material as those on Earth.