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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.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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