Tobias Dantzig Quote

He was an iconoclast. But even in this category he defies classification. For, he fits no pattern, and is beyond all norm. He sought no followers, he shunned confederates, he hewed no tablets to replace those which he had shattered.

Henri Poincaré, Critic of Crisis: Reflections on His Universe of Discourse (1954) - Ch. 1. The Iconoclast