Geometry Quotes · Page 5

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

— Henri Poincare

eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe.

— Hannah More

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

— Archimedes

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

— Plato

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

— John Rawls

“There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind…

— Alan Macfarlane

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

— Jean Cocteau

The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful…

— Rene Thom

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he…

— Andreas Osiander

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

— Paul Bloom

No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the…

— Michael Atiyah

Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God…

— Johannes Kepler

I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do…

— Alfred North Whitehead

If you see a theme that you might want to take a photo of, you sort of stand there for an hour…

— Teju Cole

What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only…

— Antony Garrett Lisi

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

I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally…

— Eugene S. Ferguson

The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed…

— Edward Gibbon

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the…

— Albert Einstein

The usual struggle squeezing my bloated Citroën, absurdly named “Picasso,” in or out of any old Italian town. I should be taking…

— Joscelyn Godwin

“Architecture’s most kissable aspect is its surface. Space is hard to get a hold on. Structure has historically been inadequately pliant. Geometry—well,…

— Sylvia Lavin

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

— Lindsay Fox

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

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.

— Rudolf Steiner

In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the…

— Euclid

All the standard equations of mathematical physics can be separated and solved in Kerr geometry.

— Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible…

— Sigmund Freud

The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the…

— Priyamvada Natarajan

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

— Benoit Mandelbrot

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

— Martin Gardner

[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

— Eric Temple Bell

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New…

— Augustus De Morgan

Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words; geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

— Sophie Germain

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860…

— Ivor Grattan-Guinness

“If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope." - Zoey Mongomery (Redbird)”

— P.C. Cast

In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in…

— Paul Valery