If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading… — Scott Kim Copy Share Image
Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest… — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects;… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space… — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
“His idea was to begin with those broad truths that must underlie all conceivable mental existences and establish a basis on those.… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of… — Bob Marshall Copy Share Image
“it is clear that in the study of beings this aim can be fulfilled by us perfectly only through successive examinations of… — George F. Hourani Copy Share Image
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Certainly it is permitted to anyone to put forward whatever hypotheses he wishes, and to develop the logical consequences contained in those… — Giuseppe Peano Copy Share Image
Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death,… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“What's the matter?" said the old man. "Can't you make up your mind what kind you want?" The kid laughed. "I want… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step.… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Seriously, you don't have to know English. It'd be nice, a nice little plus. We don't want miracles. You don't have to… — David Spade Copy Share Image
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
This is the first real evidence that we've seen now of high gravitational field strengths: monstrous things like stars moving at the… — Rainer Weiss Copy Share Image
I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Before Europeans learned about zero, Descartes could not have come up with Cartesian geometry. All anyone had ever tried was to do… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
![“The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus of Geometry [as did Clifford], for geometry is only a part of the vaster domain which he renovated; it might even be just to designate him as a…” quote by Eric Temple Bell](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a75/eric-temple-bell-26465_challenges_the-full-impact-of-the-lobachevskian-met_272905.png)
![“I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that the celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork ... insofar as nearly all the manifold movements are carried out by means of a…” quote by Johannes Kepler](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/452/johannes-kepler-4278_aim_i-am-much-occupied-with-the-investigatio_1011205.jpg)
![“[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.” quote by Hal Abelson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/232/hal-abelson-36322_biology_computer-science-is-not-really-about-com_2130397.png)
