"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."

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"It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry."

Edward W. Howe, American Novelist

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"The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry."

James Joseph Sylvester, English Mathematician

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"Projective geometry is all geometry."

Arthur Cayley, British Mathematician

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"Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."

Henri Poincare, French Mathematician

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"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."

Henri Poincare, French Mathematician

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"In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind."

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"Facts do not speak."

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"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."

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"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."

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"A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations."

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"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."

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"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."

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"It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry."

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"Projective geometry is all geometry."

"Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."

"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."

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"Mathematicians are born, not made."

"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"

"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."

"In the old days when people invented a new function they had something useful in mind."

"Facts do not speak."

"A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance."

"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."

"A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations."

"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."

"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination."