Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. — John Jewel Copy Share Image
Geometry - Types of lines, parallel, perpendicular, perpendicular intersecting, and non-perpendicular intersecting. — Grass Hopper Copy Share Image
I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your… — Jane Wagner Copy Share Image
While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs. — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Before Europeans learned about zero, Descartes could not have come up with Cartesian geometry. All anyone had ever tried was to do… — Bryan Johnson Copy Share Image
There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters… — Anya Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step.… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Seriously, you don't have to know English. It'd be nice, a nice little plus. We don't want miracles. You don't have to… — David Spade Copy Share Image
Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“... I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines.… — Henri Poincaré Copy Share Image
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the… — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau Copy Share Image
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death,… — Archimedes Copy Share Image
The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We… — Alain Badiou Copy Share Image
I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects;… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space… — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
[Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium… — Henry Edward Armstrong Copy Share Image
Pickover's lively, provocative travel guide takes readers into the fascinating realm of mystic math, from perfectly strange numbers to fractured geometries and… — Ivars Peterson Copy Share Image
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
![“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a production being made over something so simple is to make people doubt their own intuition. Calling into question the obvious by insisting that it be 'rigorously proved' ... is to…” quote by Paul Lockhart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e5b/paul-lockhart-18353_geometry_be-honest-did-you-actually-read-the-abov_1114656.jpg)
![“The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus of Geometry [as did Clifford], for geometry is only a part of the vaster domain which he renovated; it might even be just to designate him as a…” quote by Eric Temple Bell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a75/eric-temple-bell-26465_challenges_the-full-impact-of-the-lobachevskian-met_272905.jpg)
![“[Computer science] is not really about computers and it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators, and biology is not about microscopes and Petri dishes... and geometry isn't really about using surveying instruments.” quote by Hal Abelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/232/hal-abelson-36322_biology_computer-science-is-not-really-about-com_2130397.jpg)
![“[Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine atoms is arrived at by a chess-board pattern of these atoms; it is a result of geometry and not of a pairing-off of the atoms.” quote by Henry Edward Armstrong](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bf5/henry-edward-armstrong-46976_atoms_professor-bragg-asserts-that-in-sodium-c_999839.jpg)
