is he really a genius if he believed in god?
Gauss declared he firmly believed in the afterlife, and saw spirituality as something essentially important for human beings.[36] He was quoted stating: "The world would be nonsense, the whole creation an absurdity without immortality,"[37] and for this statement he was severely criticized by the atheist Eugen Dühring who judged him as a narrow superstitious man.[38]
