"It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight."

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Source : "The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences". Book by Ivor Grattan-Guinness, p. 400, 2000.

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

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“Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.”
“Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.”
“The more we sense...our ultimate potential, the more determined we become to achieve it. It's the difference between your mother hounding you to practice the piano and reaching the point where you want to do it yourself. You simply will not be denied the ultimate reward and the joy of the Big Finish. p 90”
“English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results.”
“Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.”

Source : Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1969). “History of Women Suffrage”, Ayer Co Pub
“Much in the way Olympic athletes optimize their game by paying an enormous - borderline maniacal - amount of attention to things like diet, exercise, sleep, and of course the essential R&R, we all would do well to pay more attention to those key aspects of our lives that comprise our overall health equation.”

Source : "Living Like an Olympian" by David B. Agus, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2012.
“How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.”
“If we have to know without a doubt that the choices we are making are the perfect ones, we risk never making any choices at all.”

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