Japan Quote by Alan Macfarlane

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

— Johannes Kepler

“This, dear Phaedrus, is the most important point: no geometry without the word. Without it, figures are accidents, and neither make manifest nor serve…

— Paul Valéry

Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole.…

— Julian Coolidge

“an impossible geometry”

— Alessandro Baricco

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

— Ibn Khaldun

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that…

— Johannes Kepler

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

— Pythagoras

“Geometry exist everywhere.It is necessary, however, to have eyes to see it, intelligence to understand it , and spirit to wonder at it.The wild…

— Anonymous

The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the…

— Benjamin Peirce

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

— Plato

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

— Plato