“Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.”

“Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.”

“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 of Geometry [as did Clifford], for geometry is only a part of the vaster domain which he renovated; it might even be just to designate him as a Copernicus of all thought.”