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Geometry Quotes by Eric Temple Bell
- The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus…
- [As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.
- The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.
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