I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can… — Eric Bell Copy Share Image
“The Golden Ratio defines the squaring of a circle. Stated in mathematical terms, this says: Given a square of known perimeter, create… — Marja de Vries Copy Share Image
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual… — Jeff Schaffer Copy Share Image
I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives:… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“... I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines.… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
“The Greeks, meanwhile, explicitly rejected zero. Since their mathematical system was based on geometry, numbers had to represent space of one sort… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the… — Plato Copy Share Image
I keep looking for ultimate answers, but maybe there aren't any or maybe I'm not looking in the right places, because in… — Rachel Vail Copy Share Image
I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
“In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and… — James May Copy Share Image
Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
“It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable social geometry can be. Within a couple of days I went from being the… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms… — Jo Boaler Copy Share Image
Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
Any day you had gym class was a weird school day. It started off normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind… — John Dee Copy Share Image
It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
![“[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual stories for each character, and then you do this sort of comedy geometry, weaving them together. Once you've got a funny structure and you know why the scenes are funny, then you get…” quote by Jeff Schaffer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/34d/jeff-schaffer-61497_actors_in-comedy-you-never-want-to-leave-the-ac_2937400.jpg)
