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Hence it is that the shape of something is especially meaningful.

— James J. Gibson

“Since there is no difference of meaning between round, and a round object, it is only custom which prescribes that on any given occasion…

— John Stuart Mill

“It is the same with mathematics, which would certainly not have arisen if it had been known from the beginning that in Nature there…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Cell and tissue, shell and bone, leaf and flower, are so many portions of matter, and it is in obedience to the laws of…

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

Even abstract shapes must have a likeness

— Willem de Kooning

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

I think that shes what we call a square, and were kind of like a lopsided, obtuse, triangle, oval all put together like a,…

— Honey Boo Boo Child

I think only of objects: of a leg or an arm, of the wonderful sense of foreshortening, breaking through the plane, of the division…

— Max Beckmann

It is hard for a flat thing to understand a round one.

— Arthur Dove

I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.

— Taliesin

Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they…

— Anonymous