In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy. — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of… — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“I hope you theorists know what you’re doing.’ ‘I can assure you that we don’t. The geometry is still beyond us. All… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
Creating a body of mathematics is about intellectual labor, not some kind of transcendental revelation. There are plenty of important components of… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At that moment when I put my foot on the step… — Henri Poincare 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
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I need geometry to set the grammar of the image expressive language . The structural skeleton, the composition and the geometric layout… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
... geometry became a symbol for human relations, except that it was better, because in geometry things never go bad. If certain… — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have… — Henryk Skolimowski Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
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