Geometry Quote by Arthur Cayley

Descriptive geometry has two objects: the first is to establish methods to represent on drawing paper which has only two dimensions,-namely, length and width,-all…

— Gaspard Monge

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

— Xenocrates

Projective geometry is all geometry.

— Arthur Cayley

“Two possibilities present themselves for the analytical treatment of metrical geometry.”

— Hermann Weyl

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

— Johannes Kepler

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

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.

— Rudolf Steiner

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

...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures…

— Carl Gustav Hempel

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

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be…

— Hans Reichenbach

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

— Pythagoras