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
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
“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
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
We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to… — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible… — Felix Klein 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
Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a… — Ellen Hopkins 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 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
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this. — Lord Acton 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
That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
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