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Mathematicians Are Born, Not Made.

One Geometry Cannot Be More True Than Another; It Can Only Be More Convenient.

The Mathematical Facts Worthy Of Being Studied Are Those Which, By Their Analogy With Other Facts, Are Capable Of Leading Us To The Knowledge Of A Physical Law. They Reveal The Kinship Between Other Facts, Long Known, But Wrongly Believed To Be Strangers To One Another.

I Entered An Omnibus To Go To Some Place Or Other. At That Moment When I Put My Foot On The Step The Idea Came To Me, Without Anything In My Former Thoughts Seeming To Have Paved The Way For It, That The Transformations I Had Used To Define The Fuchsian Functions Were Identical With Non-euclidean Geometry.

A Very Small Cause, Which Escapes Us, Determines A Considerable Effect Which We Cannot Ignore, And We Say That This Effect Is Due To Chance.