I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. . . Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.
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As quoted in Solid Shape (1990) by Jan J. KoenderinkCarl Friedrich Gauss
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