Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in…

“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration of the…

— Jean-Baptiste Biot

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

“Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and deprive you…

— Farkas Bolyai

The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring…

— Edward Gibbon

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

— Thomas Jefferson

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury…

— Sydney Smith

“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the…

— William Kingdon Clifford

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to…

— Alain Badiou

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

— James Joseph Sylvester

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

— Augustus De Morgan

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of…

— Oliver Heaviside

“... I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines. The incidents…

— Henri Poincaré

The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to…

— Guillaume Apollinaire