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
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
Now, the reason that we think computer science is about computers is pretty much the same reason that the Egyptians thought geometry… — Hal Abelson Copy Share Image
There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms… — Jo Boaler Copy Share Image
I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives:… — Martina Navratilova Copy Share Image
[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual… — Jeff Schaffer Copy Share Image
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Perhaps you have seen me. I know well, my purpose was merely that of a symbol, 'equals', 'times'... ; but what is… — Albert Goldbarth 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
“This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest… — Paul Valéry 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
Since geometry is co-eternal with the divine mind before the birth of things, God himself served as his own model in creating… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
If you're sitting across the table from someone, the geometry of the situation says 'confrontation.' If you're walking with somebody, you're heading… — Scott Kim Copy Share Image
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to… — David Mumford Copy Share Image
At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
John Michell's The Dimensions of Paradise is inarguably among the most important Gnostic transmissions of recent generations. With his candid, uncomplicated style,… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
Aspiring to these wide generalizations, the analysis of quadratic functions soars to a pitch from whence it may look proudly down on… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right… — Euclid Copy Share Image
We already have a pretty good knowledge of the universe's mass-energy content, so if we can get a handle on its geometry,… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image
There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's… — Bruce Lipton Copy Share Image
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
![“[In comedy] you never want to leave the actors hanging out to dry. So you need to come up with funny individual stories for each character, and then you do this sort of comedy geometry, weaving them together. Once you've got a funny structure and you know why the scenes are funny, then you get…” quote by Jeff Schaffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/34d/jeff-schaffer-61497_actors_in-comedy-you-never-want-to-leave-the-ac_2937400.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)
