János Bolyai Quote

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.


Quoted in Israel Kleiner, Thinking the Unthinkable: The Story of Complex Numbers (with a - Moral), Mathematics Teacher, Volume 81, Number 7, October 1988 - (p. 590)


Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no human can hasten or retard.