Euclid Quotes
32 Euclid quotes by 24 unique authors
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Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous.…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
— Arthur Cayley
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Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play:…
— G. H. Hardy
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Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague…
— Bernard Bolzano
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Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely…
— Unknown Author
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Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to…
— George Washington
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The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.
— Augustus De Morgan
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Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of my life, as…
— Bertrand Russell
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I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears as…
— George Polya
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Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though their…
— Frederick Soddy
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The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor…
— Unknown Author
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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 open,…
— John Aubrey
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Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose…
— Unknown Author
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We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote…
— Walter Bagehot
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Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
— Carl Sandburg
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From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.
— Saul Bellow
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The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the…
— Guillaume Apollinaire
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They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit…
— Tobias Dantzig
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The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is…
— John Perry
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At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious…
— Bertrand Russell
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