Euclid Quote by C. Smoryński

“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the…

— William Kingdon Clifford

The work of mathematicians on 'pure' problems has often yielded ideas that have waited to be rediscovered by physicists. The work of Euclid, Apollonius…

— Dominic Cummings

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

— James Joseph Sylvester

It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a…

— Bertrand Russell

“His idea was to begin with those broad truths that must underlie all conceivable mental existences and establish a basis on those. The great…

— H.G. Wells

About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay…

— John Aubrey

Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle…

— Catharine Cox Miles

“To Plato, God was a mathematician. To Kepler, too, and to Biehl and Fredhoj. I do not believe it was a coincidence that their…

— Peter Høeg

“At the Stourbridge Fair in 1663, at age twenty, he purchased a book on astrology, “out of a curiosity to see what there was…

— Carl Sagan

[Kepler] had to realize clearly that logical-mathematical theoretizing, no matter how lucid, could not guarantee truth by itself; that the most beautiful logical theory…

— Albert Einstein

Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is…

— Daniel Tammet