Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Farkas Bolyai

Quote by Farkas Bolyai

“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.”

Quote by Farkas Bolyai

Create image

Author

Farkas Bolyai
Farkas Bolyai

Farkas Bolyai was a Hungarian mathematician renowned for his pivotal contributions to mathematics, especially in the realm of non-Euclidean geometry. Born on February 9, 1775, in Kolozsvár, Hungary, and passing away on November 20, 1856, in Marosvásárhely, Hungary, Bolyai's work fundamentally altered the understanding of geometry. His discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, presented in his posthumously published work 'Über die Egale Vertheilung der Linien in einem Raume,' challenged the established Euclidean parallel postulate and paved the way for the development of hyperbolic geometry. more

You May Also Like

“I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men.”

MenMayLightActionScienceWishGenerationsDutyFitFellowsShiningDeedsCompareJustifyCandleFellow ManDischarge
Book:The Chemical History of a Candle
Create image

“Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back again. And every sand becomes a gem Reflected in the beams divine; Blown back they blind the mocking eye, But still in Israel's paths they shine. The atoms of Democritus And Newton's particles of light Are sands upon the Red Sea shore, Where Israel's tents do shine so bright.”

StillsLightEyeSciencePathSeaDivineWindRedBlindShiningBlowIsraelVainSandShoreAtomsParticlesNewtonBeamMockBack AgainTentsGemsRed Sea
Author:William Blake
Create image

“The phenomena in these exhausted tubes reveal to physical science a new world-a world where matter may exist in a fourth state, where the corpuscular theory of light may be true, and where light does not always move in straight lines, but where we can never enter, and with which we must be content to observe and experiment from the outside.”

WorldMayDoeMatterStatesLightMovingScienceLinesTheoryExperimentsBeing TrueNew WorldFourthExhaustedTubesStraight LinesPhysical Science
Author:William Crookes
Create image

“Well do I remember that dark hot little office in the hospital at Begumpett, with the necessary gleam of light coming in from under the eaves of the veranda. I did not allow the punka to be used because it blew about my dissected mosquitoes, which were partly examined without a cover-glass; and the result was that swarms of flies and of 'eye-flies' - minute little insects which try to get into one's ears and eyelids - tormented me at their pleasure”

TryingWellsLittlesLightEyeRememberScienceUsedDarkPleasureResultsMinutesOfficeEarsHotGlassesHospitalsInsectsExaminationGleamMosquitoesEyelidsSwarms
Author:Ronald Ross
Create image

“What, then, is light according to the electromagnetic theory? It consists of alternate and opposite rapidly recurring transverse magnetic disturbances, accompanied with electric displacements, the direction of the electric displacement being at the right angles to the magnetic disturbance, and both at right angles to the direction of the ray.”

LightScienceTheoryOppositesRaysElectricAngleDisturbanceMagneticRecurringDisplacement
Book:The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:
Create image

“Whatsoever accidents or qualities our senses make us think there be in the world, they are not there, but are seemings and apparitions only. The things that really are in the world without us, are those motions by which these seemings are caused. And this is the great deception of sense, which also is by sense to be corrected. For as sense telleth me, when I see directly, that the colour seemeth to be in the object; so also sense telleth me, when I see by reflection, that colour is not in the object.”

ThinkingWorldLightScienceQualityObjectsReflectionAccidentsDeceptionColourSeemingApparitions
Author:Thomas Hobbes
Create image