Geometry Quotes · Page 10

Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

— Sophie Germain

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw…

— Isaac Newton

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

— Anonymous

Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be…

— Johannes Kepler

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

— John Jewel

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

— Nicolaus Copernicus

The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication.

— Harrison Owen

It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and…

— Rene Descartes

“To bi željela geometrizirati – sustavnu i promišljenu strukturu teksta.”

— Jasna Horvat

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

— Plato

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

“The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.”

— Albert Einstein

In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to…

— Leonhard Euler

Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical…

— Jean Dieudonne

Projective geometry is all geometry.

— Arthur Cayley

Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally…

— Eugene S. Ferguson

A fine image is geometry, modulated by the heart

— Willy Ronis

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no…

— Plutarch

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

— J. Michael Straczynski

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

— Louis de Bernieres

“Everybody at the party is a many sided polygon....Nonagon!”

— They Might Be Giants

This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to…

— Herodotus

Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in…

— Julian Coolidge

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.

— Ellsworth Kelly