Bigs Quote by Benoit Mandelbrot

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

— Maria Edgeworth

Length of a straight line is determined by the two tiny dots on both ends

— Mads

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

— Tennessee Williams

You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.

— Socrates

Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental.

— William Hogarth

The straight line is godless and immoral. The straight line is not a creative line, it is a duplicating line, an imitating line.

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.

— Antonio Porchia

“the line is not always straight..”

— ليندا نصّار Linda Nassar

Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest…

— Hans Reichenbach

The straight line is ungodly.

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.

— Victor Hugo