I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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Nationality: German Type: Mathematician Born: April 30, 1777 Death: February 23, 1855 |
“I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.”
“When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.”