Top 6 Quotes & Sayings by Janos Bolyai

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Hungarian mathematician Janos Bolyai.
Last updated on December 25, 2024.
Janos Bolyai

János Bolyai or Johann Bolyai, was a Hungarian mathematician, who developed absolute geometry—a geometry that includes both Euclidean geometry and hyperbolic geometry. The discovery of a consistent alternative geometry that might correspond to the structure of the universe helped to free mathematicians to study abstract concepts irrespective of any possible connection with the physical world.

One must do no violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimera.
Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard. — © Janos Bolyai
Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.
From nothing I have created another entirely new world.
I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
I have created a new universe from nothing.
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