Janos Bolyai quotes

Janos Bolyai quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.”
-- Janos Bolyai

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“One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.”
-- Janos Bolyai

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“From nothing I have created another entirely new world.”
-- Janos Bolyai

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“I have created a new universe from nothing.”
-- Janos Bolyai

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“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”
“The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit.”
“Fame is a very strange animal.”
“Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.”
“That's the strange thing about making a record. You can be in one mood for an hour, put it on a record, and you're remembered that way.”

Source : Carsten Jensen (2011). “We, the Drowned”, p.135, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking”
“Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.”
“Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated.”
“Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.”

Source : "Alexei Navalny: Russia's new rebel who has Vladimir Putin in his sights" by Tom Parfitt, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2012.
“All I want is to preserve that wonderful something which so purely exists between us.”

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