Quote#Death
Bei Gegenstdnden mit denen ich mich noch nicht lange beschaftigt…
Quote byCarl Friedrich Gauss · 1777–1855
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letter to Bessel (1826), quoted in Dunnington, G. Waldo. "Gauss, His Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, and His Contemporaries in the Institut de France." National Mathematics Magazine 9.7 (1935): 187-192..
English (original)
Bei Gegenstdnden mit denen ich mich noch nicht lange beschaftigt habe, bin ich gegen meine eigenen Ansichten, zumal wenn sie einem Laplace widersprechen, misstrauisch und nehme gern die von anderen entgegen. ["I am suspicious of my own views on subjects with which I have not long occupied myself, and gladly accept those of others, especially when my views contradict one of Laplace."]
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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