Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation... — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides… — Richard Digance Copy Share Image
The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
“If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope." - Zoey Mongomery (Redbird)” — P.C. Cast Copy Share Image
Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class.… — Harry Markopolos Copy Share Image
Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry,… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
“A brick could be used as a cube. No it couldn’t. If you thought it could, you need to be punished. I’m… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally… — Eugene S. Ferguson Copy Share Image
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860… — Ivor Grattan-Guinness Copy Share Image
In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
“Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth” — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures. — Sophie Germain Copy Share Image
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the… — Euclid Copy Share Image
All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry. — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image