We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry. — John Rawls Copy Share Image
Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not. — Plato Copy Share Image
It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out! — Archimedes Copy Share Image
That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at… — Oliver Lodge Copy Share Image
He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“I hope you theorists know what you’re doing.’ ‘I can assure you that we don’t. The geometry is still beyond us. All… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
The usual struggle squeezing my bloated Citroën, absurdly named “Picasso,” in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
“On what may be the last page he wrote in his notebooks, Leonardo drew four right triangles with bases of differing lengths… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Geometry exist everywhere.It is necessary, however, to have eyes to see it, intelligence to understand it , and spirit to wonder at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Architecture’s most kissable aspect is its surface. Space is hard to get a hold on. Structure has historically been inadequately pliant. Geometry—well,… — Sylvia Lavin Copy Share Image
The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“How can you study geometry and not believe in a god? A god of perfect points and planes, surrounded by angels and… — Taylor Mali Copy Share Image
There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and… — Georges Vantongerloo Copy Share Image
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the… — William Whewell 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
Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Two possibilities present themselves for the analytical treatment of metrical geometry.” — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity. — Dorothy Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry. — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
