Quotations by Arthur Cayley

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Quoted in J R Newman, The World of Mathematics (New York 1956).

Projective geometry is all geometry.
Quoted in J R Newman, The World of Mathematics (New York 1956).

JOC/EFR February 2006

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