To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
...the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects;… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“In the pentagram, the Pythagoreans found all proportions well-known in antiquity: arithmetic, geometric, harmonic, and also the well-known golden proportion, or the… — Alexey Stakhov Copy Share Image
There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and… — Georges Vantongerloo Copy Share Image
A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other,… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of… — Carl Gustav Hempel Copy Share Image
I remember, at MIT, we had to write an essay about something mathematical that you do in your extra time. I basically… — Payal Kadakia Copy Share Image
“Is everyone with one face called a Milo?" "Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading… — Scott Kim Copy Share Image
There are certain conceptual powers in this project, like the relationship of glass to sand, and the idea of putting glass back… — Tavares Strachan Copy Share Image
Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right… — Euclid Copy Share Image
John Michell's The Dimensions of Paradise is inarguably among the most important Gnostic transmissions of recent generations. With his candid, uncomplicated style,… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
