Euclid Quotes

32 quotes by 24 authors

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. — Saul Bellow
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
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
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
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
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry. — James Joseph Sylvester
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament. — Augustus De Morgan
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material… — G. H. Hardy
I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all of… — Benoit Mandelbrot
My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was… — Fred Wilson
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent… — Alain Badiou
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. — Eric Temple Bell

Who Wrote These Euclid Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 32 Euclid Quotes as follows: