The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive… — Edna St. Vincent Millay 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
“In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. — Arthur Cayley 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
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Such is the arithmetic of adventure, in which two and two no more make only four than that Euclid rules in the… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
“Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of… — Bertrand Russell 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
“Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the… — Frederick Soddy Copy Share Image
Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought… — George Washington Copy Share Image
In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can… — Nikolai Lobachevsky Copy Share Image
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two… — John Perry 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
“Believe me, if Archimedes ever had the grand entrance of a girl as pretty as Gloria to look forward to, he would… — David Klass Copy Share Image
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and… — Catharine Cox Miles Copy Share Image
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire Copy Share Image
“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
“In Euclid's Elements we meet the concept which later plays a significant role in the development of science. The concept is called… — Alexey Stakhov Copy Share Image
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
“Much as Euclid proved that there can only ever be five 3d Platonic solids, over two millennia later Schafli proved that there… — Matt Parker Copy Share Image
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
It would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
“... I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines.… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins,… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
“When one day Lagrange took out of his pocket a paper which he read at the Académe, and which contained a demonstration… — Jean-Baptiste Biot Copy Share Image
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