In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry). — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. — Akira Yoshizawa Copy Share Image
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
“A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the… — Euclid Copy Share Image
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“result: every description of events in space involves the use of a rigid body to which such events have to be referred.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only… — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
If you see a theme that you might want to take a photo of, you sort of stand there for an hour… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry. ..."Congruent" means in Euclidean geometry… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful… — Rene Thom Copy Share Image
Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a… — Frances G. Wickes Copy Share Image
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
“In his ... 'Geometrical peculiarities of the Pyramids', Ballard shows the relationship between the equal area theory and the golden number. After… — Roger Herz-Fischler Copy Share Image
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
“If our sides were unequal our angles might be unequal. Instead of its being sufficient to feel, or estimate by sight, a… — Edwin Abbott Copy Share Image
The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
