Geometry Quotes · Page 4

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

— Louis de Bernieres

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

— Euripides

“There is geometry in the humming of the string.”

— Pythagoras

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

— Ibn Khaldun

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

— Guillaume Apollinaire

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

— Voltaire

Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.

— Sophie Germain

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

— Ernest Hemingway

I think I still like science and art better, but geometry is a big improvement over algebra.

— Laurie Hernandez

When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in…

— Sean Scully

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

— Ron Eglash

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

— Robert M. Pirsig

“The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.”

— Albert Einstein

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

— Vladimir Arnold

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

— Erno Rubik

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a…

— Plato

In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration,…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Fashion is not just about what we wear, but...fashion is also a business. It is an art, it's a career that involves…

— Michelle Obama

The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way…

— Anonymous

Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to…

— Christopher Robin Milne

Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact…

— Omar Khayyam

Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the…

— Charles Frazier

We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout…

— Augusto De Luca

The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that…

— Dean Koontz

Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels…

— David Hume

“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a…

— Paul Lockhart

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something…

— Henry David Thoreau

Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly…

— Augustus De Morgan

One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“If the human mind can understand the universe, it means the human mind is fundamentally of the same order as the divine…

— Robert Zubrin

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

— Anonymous

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

— Ice T

“Everybody at the party is a many sided polygon…Nonagon!”

— They Might Be Giants

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

— Henri Poincare

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

— Ellsworth Kelly

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

— George Polya

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

— Thomas Dolby

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

— Pythagoras