Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is. — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for… — Dan Florence Copy Share Image
I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was… — Nathan Kress Copy Share Image
The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I… — Khleo 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
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 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
Fractions, decimals, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, mechanics - these are the steps up the mountain side. How high is one going to… — Christopher Robin Milne Copy Share Image
Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this… — Plato Copy Share Image
A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration,… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of… — Carl Gustav Hempel 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
“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
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
“If our sides were unequal our angles might be unequal. Instead of its being sufficient to feel, or estimate by sight, a… — Edwin Abbott Copy Share Image
The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time. — Antony Garrett Lisi Copy Share Image
Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry. — Arthur Cayley 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 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
Geometry - Types of lines, parallel, perpendicular, perpendicular intersecting, and non-perpendicular intersecting. — Grass Hopper Copy Share Image
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. — John Jewel Copy Share Image
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? — George Iles Copy Share Image
“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law — Wilfred Owen Copy Share Image
Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently. — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I was engaged in all the required courses of math and geometry, but the area that I blossomed in was the art… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the… — Priyamvada Natarajan Copy Share Image
I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the… — Euclid 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 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/i/a75/eric-temple-bell-26465_challenges_the-full-impact-of-the-lobachevskian-met_272905.png)
![“[Not enough is known about solid geometry] and for two reasons: in the first place, no government places value on it; this leads to a lack of energy in the pursuit of it, and it is difficult. In the second place, students cannot learn it unless they have a teacher. But then a teacher can hardly be…” quote by Plato](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ba0/plato-103_difficult_not-enough-is-known-about-solid-geometry_597380.jpg)
