It must not be supposed... that it is to a gift of Nature that I owe such mathematical power as I possess. No, it has come by hard work, hard work. Not mere industry, but brain-splitting thinking — hard work; hard work that has often endangered my health.


In: Sir Richard Arman Gregory, Discovery; or, The Spirit and Service of Science, Chapter I (p. 5)

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Quotes

It must not be supposed... that it is to a gift of Nature that I owe such mathematical power as I possess. No, it has come by hard work, hard work....

It must not be supposed... that it is to a gift of Nature that I owe such mathematical power as I possess. No, it has come by hard work, hard work....

It must not be supposed... that it is to a gift of Nature that I owe such mathematical power as I possess. No, it has come by hard work, hard work....

It must not be supposed... that it is to a gift of Nature that I owe such mathematical power as I possess. No, it has come by hard work, hard work....