Geometry Quotes · Page 5

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

— Euripides

I love the simplicity of the Cube because it's a very clear geometrical shape, and I love geometry because it's the study…

— Erno Rubik

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

— Shia LaBeouf

I think I still like science and art better, but geometry is a big improvement over algebra.

— Laurie Hernandez

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

— Ron Eglash

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry.

— Vladimir Arnold

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

— Erno Rubik

“The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.”

— Albert Einstein

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

— Robert M. Pirsig

[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

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

“This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest…

— Paul Valéry

Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space…

— Arthur Cayley

[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

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious…

— Thomas Jefferson

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

Enchanting is not the word that would immediately spring to mind when describing a play that deals with fractal geometry, iterated algorithms,…

— Lyn Gardner

The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The…

— David van Dantzig

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied…

— Angela Carter

“In the pentagram, the Pythagoreans found all proportions well-known in antiquity: arithmetic, geometric, harmonic, and also the well-known golden proportion, or the…

— Alexey Stakhov

There are certain conceptual powers in this project, like the relationship of glass to sand, and the idea of putting glass back…

— Tavares Strachan

“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a…

— Oliver Heaviside

But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk,…

— Neal Stephenson

The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that…

— Dean Koontz

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

— Akira Yoshizawa

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

— J. Michael Straczynski

The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.

— John Edensor Littlewood

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

— Alan Watts

Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys...

— John Dryden

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

— Norman Mailer

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters…

— Albrecht Durer

“A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the…

— Euclid

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

— Pythagoras

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

— Emile M. Cioran

My old geometry teacher called me and he was like yo man you need to start wearing a shirt. You're ruining my…

— Drew Chadwick

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

— Emily Dickinson

“The Ark of the Covenant is a Golden Rectangle because its rectangular shape is in the proportions of the Golden Ratio.”

— Donald Frazer

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

— Benjamin Franklin