Paul Julius Möbius
(24 Jan 1853 - 8 Jan 1907)
German neurologist who wrote a manual on the diagnosis of nervous diseases, and published a number of neuro-psychological studies of poets and authors, written in a semi-popular style.
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Science Quotes by Paul Julius Möbius (3 quotes)
Everybody is pathological to a certain degree... the more so the elevated his standing... only myth and cliche have that a person must be either sane or crazy.
— Paul Julius Möbius
In Ausgewahlte Werke, Vol. I (1909), xi.
It is with mathematics not otherwise than it is with music, painting or poetry. Anyone can become a lawyer, doctor or chemist, and as such may succeed well, provided he is clever and industrious, but not every one can become a painter, or a musician, or a mathematician: general cleverness and industry alone count here for nothing.
— Paul Julius Möbius
In Ueber die Anlage zur Mathematik (1900), 5. As translated in Robert Édouard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica; Or, The Philomath’s Quotation-Book (1914), 184.
Persons, who have a decided mathematical talent, constitute, as it were, a favored class. They bear the same relation to the rest of mankind that those who are academically trained bear to those who are not.
— Paul Julius Möbius
In Ueber die Anlage zur Mathematik (1900), 4.