Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in… — Hans Reichenbach Copy Share Image
“In his ... 'Geometrical peculiarities of the Pyramids', Ballard shows the relationship between the equal area theory and the golden number. After… — Roger Herz-Fischler 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
Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at… — Heinrich Burkhardt 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
I love making object form; I wish I was doing more of it. I admire the research of my colleagues, and sometimes… — Keller Easterling 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 keep looking for ultimate answers, but maybe there aren't any or maybe I'm not looking in the right places, because in… — Rachel Vail Copy Share Image
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin 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
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. — Pythagoras 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
“It is to geometry that we owe in some sort the source of this discovery [of beryllium]; it is that [science] that… — Antoine-François De Fourcroy Copy Share Image
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
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 Copy Share Image
Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he… — Andreas Osiander Copy Share Image
When I was a young kid at art school, I loved the sensual geometry of Poliakoff, which, of course, is inherent in… — Sean Scully Copy Share Image
And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters… — Albrecht Durer Copy Share Image
For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
