Geometry Quotes · Page 13

Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible…

— Ibn Khaldun

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

— Lord Byron

When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to…

— Max Planck

Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone…

— Paul Bloom

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

— Henri Poincare

There is no royal road to geometry.

— Euclid

I actually wanted to be an architect when I was a kid, but I did a solid geometry course where we had…

— Alison Sudol

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

— Ibn Khaldun

“A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the…

— Euclid

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

— John Rawls

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra…

— E. W. Howe

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

— Margaret Geller

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

— Lord Acton

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

— John B. S. Haldane

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

— Voltaire

Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated…

— Archimedes

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the…

— Felix Klein

At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the…

— Plato

The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can…

— Eric Bell

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.

— Lindsay Fox

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your…

— Jane Wagner

I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion…

— Henri Poincare

Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be…

— Aristotle