“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but the flash is everything.”
— Henri Poincaré, quoted in The World of Mathematics by James R. Newman (Simon & Schuster, 1956)
Dress ca. 1828
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dress, 1880-85
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Walking dress by Madame Laferrière ca. 1893
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Château de Chambord, France
‘Divin mensonge’ by Godet, Paris, 1925
“Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but the flash is everything.”
— Henri Poincaré, quoted in The World of Mathematics by James R. Newman (Simon & Schuster, 1956)