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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… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. — Arthur Cayley
- Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — G. H. Hardy
- Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I… — Bernard Bolzano
- Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
- I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that… — Unknown Author
- Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought… — George Washington
- The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. — Augustus De Morgan
- Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
- At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. This was one of the great events of… — Bertrand Russell
- I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my… — Abraham Lincoln