Farkas Bolyai Quotes

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.

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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.

[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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