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)

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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