I Entered An Omnibus To Go To Some Place Or Other. At That Moment When I Put My Foot On The Step The Idea Came To Me, Without Anything In My Former Thoughts Seeming To Have Paved The Way For It, That The Transformations I Had Used To Define The Fuchsian Functions Were Identical With Non-euclidean Geometry.

-Henri Poincare

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I Entered An Omnibus To Go To

Henri Poincare

I Entered An Omnibus To Go To Some Place Or Other. At That Moment When I Put My Foot On The Step The Idea Came To Me, Without Anything In My Former Thoughts Seeming To Have Paved The Way For It, That The Transformations I Had Used To Define The Fuchsian Functions Were Identical With Non-euclidean Geometry.

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All That Is Not Thought Is Pure Nothingness; Since We Can Think Only Thoughts, And All The Words We Use To Speak Of Things Can Express Only Thoughts, To Say There Is Something Other Than Thought Is Therefore An Affirmation Which Can Have No Meaning.

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