Quote#Remembrance
The very spirits of the winds, when they were sent to carry the…
Quote byBenjamin Peirce · 1809–1880
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Ben Yamen's Song of Geometry (1853).
English (original)
The very spirits of the winds, when they were sent to carry the grateful harvest to the thirsting fields of Calabria, did not forget the geometry which they had studied in the caverns of Æolus and of which the geologist is daily discovering the diagrams.
— Benjamin Peirce
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