Roger joseph boscovich quotes about family

Roger Joseph Boscovich (18 May1711 – 13 February1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuitpriest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa.

Quotes

• But if some mind very different from ours were to look upon some property of some curved line as we do on the evenness of a straight line, he would not recognize as such the evenness of a straight line; nor would he arrange the elements of his geometry according to that very different system, and would investigate quite other relationships as I have suggested in my notes.
  We fashion our geometry on the properties of a straight line because that seems to us to be the simplest of all.

  But really all lines that are continuous and of a uniform nature are just as simple as one another. Another kind of mind which might form an equally clear mental perception of some property of any one of these curves, as we do of the congruence of a straight line