Geometry Quotes · Page 15

Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind…

— Christopher Wren

Certainly it is permitted to anyone to put forward whatever hypotheses he wishes, and to develop the logical consequences contained in those…

— Giuseppe Peano

Emotions are far harder things to understand than algebra and geometry, yet we spend hours in elucidating mathematics and expect such a…

— Frances G. Wickes

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location…

— Lewis Thomas

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the…

— William Whewell

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks…

— Ron Eglash

And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights…

— Yann Martel

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some…

— H. G. Wells

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

— Marcus du Sautoy

Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount…

— Jaggi Vasudev

Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston…

— Gustave Flaubert

[On Archimedes mathematical results:] It is not possible to find in all geometry more difficult and intricate questions, or more simple and…

— Proclus

[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual…

— Jeff Schaffer

We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations?…

— Albert Einstein

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

— George Iles

Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating…

— Johannes Kepler

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

— Henri Poincare

Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

— Johannes Kepler

One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do,…

— Isaac Asimov

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

— Eric Temple Bell

Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his…

— Henry James

Writing is the geometry of the soul.

— Plato

As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have…

— Augustin-Louis Cauchy