Geometry Quotes · Page 3

Geometry is the most complete science.

— David Hilbert

“an impossible geometry”

— Alessandro Baricco

In reality the universe has no geometry.

— Kedar Joshi

You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.

— Paul Rand

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

— Eric Temple Bell

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

— Gustave Flaubert

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

— James Joseph Sylvester

If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope.

— Anonymous

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

— Plato

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

— Nicholas of Cusa

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

— Liam Neeson

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

— Margaret Wertheim

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

— John Rawls

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a…

— Plato

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

— Plato

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

— Archimedes

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

There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters…

— Anya Kamenetz

This is the first real evidence that we've seen now of high gravitational field strengths: monstrous things like stars moving at the…

— Rainer Weiss

Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical…

— Jean Dieudonne

Before Europeans learned about zero, Descartes could not have come up with Cartesian geometry. All anyone had ever tried was to do…

— Bryan Johnson

I just toured around looking for fractals, and when I found something that had a scaling geometry, I would ask the folks…

— Ron Eglash

His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever…

— Hermann Hesse

Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into…

— Simone Weil

Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject…

— Gerolamo Cardano

“Is everyone with one face called a Milo?" "Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John…

— Norton Juster

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

When we teach a child to sing or play the flute, we teach her how to listen. When we teach her to…

— Jane Alexander

... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra,…

— Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels…

— David Hume

“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a…

— Paul Lockhart

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

— Euclid

Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

— William Fogg Osgood

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

— George Polya

She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

— Thomas Dolby