Farkas Bolyai quotes
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“When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring.”
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“Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life. Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid's postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.”
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“The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...”
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“Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there.”
-- Farkas BolyaiSource : Letter to János Bolyai, April 04, 1820.
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“Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.”
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“Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light.”
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Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Early novels and stories”
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