Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

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

— Robert M. Pirsig

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

— Henri Poincare

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

— Henri Poincare

“The question: 'is the Euclidean geometry true?' has no significance for Poincaré, for these is no such thing as one geometry being more true…

— Fulton J. Sheen

. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most…

— Henri Poincare

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

— Ralph Ellison

“Beauty is an advantage, smile is guarantee.”

— Amit Kalantri

Any time coming back to a place that you've won before, I think it's advantageous.

— Patrick Cantlay

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

— Sun Tzu

This tendency to make laws that are convenient or advantageous rather than right has mushroomed.

— John Howard Griffin

Silence is often advantageous.

— Menander

Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

One's own free unfettered choice, one's own caprice-however wild it may be, one's own fancy worked up at times to frenzy-is that very "most…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that throughout evolutionary history, the eye evolved independently fifty…

— Marcus du Sautoy

Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's…

— Campbell Scott