Arbitrary Quote by Albert Einstein

“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in space as…

— Bernhard Riemann

Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for…

— Immanuel Kant

Geometry existed before creation.

— Plato

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

“Bodies influence the space that surrounds them; they tell us whatever we can learn about that space. Does this mean that, possibly, there is…

— Henning Genz

Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation...

— Johannes Kepler

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

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

— Johannes Kepler

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

— David Hilbert

Absolute space, that is to say, the mark to which it would be necessary to refer the earth to know whether it really moves,…

— Henri Poincare

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

— Arthur Cayley

“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity,…

— Hermann Weyl