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No monument should stand over [my] grave, only an apple-tree, in memory of the three apples; the two of Eve and Paris, which made hell out of earth, and that of Newton, which elevated the earth again into the circle of heavenly bodies.
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Farkas Bolyai, as quoted by Florian Cajori, A History of Mathematics (1894) [https://books.google.de/books?id=6vM7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA302&dq=apples p. 302 books.google], citing Franz Schmidt, "Aus dem Leben zweier ungarischer Mathematiker Johann und Wolfgang Bo

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