The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods… — Paul Carus Copy Share Image
“My stepfather, the builder, taught me how to perform certain operations in geometry: how to divide a line exactly in half, how… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for… — Anonymous 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
I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then… — Kiki Smith Copy Share Image
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently… — Jean-Victor Poncelet Copy Share Image
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure… — Andre-Marie Ampere Copy Share Image
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be… — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are… — George Leonard Copy Share Image
At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the… — Plato Copy Share Image
Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
“It never ceases to amaze me how adaptable social geometry can be. Within a couple of days I went from being the… — K.J. Parker Copy Share Image
The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and… — James May 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
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can… — Eric Bell Copy Share Image
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy Copy Share Image
“The Golden Ratio defines the squaring of a circle. Stated in mathematical terms, this says: Given a square of known perimeter, create… — Marja de Vries Copy Share Image
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Greeks, meanwhile, explicitly rejected zero. Since their mathematical system was based on geometry, numbers had to represent space of one sort… — Chris Anderson Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the… — Felix Klein Copy Share Image
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you… — Ming-Dao Deng Copy Share Image
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in… — Julian Coolidge 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
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
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