As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Copy Share Image
Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures. — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... — John Dryden Copy Share Image
The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity. — Dorothy Hodgkin Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
“My stepfather, the builder, taught me how to perform certain operations in geometry: how to divide a line exactly in half, how… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods… — Paul Carus Copy Share Image
We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra,… — Jessie Belle Rittenhouse Copy Share Image
When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to… — Jane Alexander Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert 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
I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The classical theorists resemble Euclidean geometers in a non-Euclidean world who, discovering that in experience straight lines apparently parallel often meet, rebuke… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
“He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed… — James Jones Copy Share Image
If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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