The importance of infinite processes for the practical…

The bottom line is down where it belongs – at the bottom. Far above it in importance are the infinite number of events that…

— Paul Hawken

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations…

— James Joseph Sylvester

So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

— Anonymous

In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on…

— Jean-Victor Poncelet

God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they…

— Thomas Brooks

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

— Benjamin Franklin

Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division…

— Gerolamo Cardano

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

— Nicholas of Cusa

The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively…

— David van Dantzig

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

— Hannah More

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

— Jean Cocteau

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute…

— Annie Dillard

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss