Flatland Quotes

9 quotes by 7 authors

• I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged… — Edwin A. Abbott
• If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our women. For if… — Edwin A. Abbott
• For Christmas, 1939, a girl friend gave me a book token which I used to buy Linus Pauling's recently published Nature of the Chemical Bond.… — Max Perutz
• The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions. — Thomas Banchoff
• Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams of our ancestors… — Thomas Banchoff
• PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation. — Edward Tufte
• She padded toward Han, barefoot, like a faerie startled out of a forest bower, bewitching mix of clan and flatland beauty. — Cinda Williams Chima
• The reason we personify things like cars and computers is that just as monkeys live in an arboreal world and moles live in an underground… — Richard Dawkins
• Flatland was a great book...Edwin Abbot. I gotta say, I went nuts over A Brief History of Time, the Stephen Hawking book. I'm sort of… — Seth Macfarlane

Who Wrote These Flatland Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 9 Flatland Quotes as follows:

• 2 Flatland Quotes by Edwin A. Abbott
• 2 Flatland Quotes by Thomas Banchoff
• 1 Flatland Quote by Max Perutz
• 1 Flatland Quote by Edward Tufte
• 1 Flatland Quote by Cinda Williams Chima
• 1 Flatland Quote by Richard Dawkins
• 1 Flatland Quote by Seth MacFarlane