"Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and deprive you of your health, peace of mind and happiness in life.[Having himself spent a life..."
- Farkas Bolyai
"When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in early spring."
"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.[Having himself spent a lifetime uns..."
"The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses …"