Bernard Bolzano Quotes & Sayings

Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever. — Bernard Bolzano

Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite. — Bernard Bolzano

My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. — Bernard Bolzano