Geometry Quotes · Page 11

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

— Eric Temple Bell

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

— Norman Mailer

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more…

— Vera Nazarian

Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a…

— Frank Stella

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

— James Joseph Sylvester

What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest…

— G. H. Hardy

Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music,…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Any one who has stood upon a lofty summit and gazed over an inchoate tangle of deep canyons and cragged mountains, of…

— Bob Marshall

[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about…

— Hal Abelson

“Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors.”

— Plato

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

— Johannes Kepler

There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to…

— Gregory Benford

In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the…

— Euclid

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the…

— Madame de Stael

We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to…

— Vidal Sassoon

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical…

— Benjamin Peirce

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860…

— Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the…

— Albert Einstein

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

— Plato

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

— Thomas Hobbes

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys...

— John Dryden