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Flatland Quotes by Edwin A. Abbott
- 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…
- 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…
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- I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers,… — Edwin A. Abbott
- Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams… — Thomas Banchoff
- If our highly pointed triangles of the soldier class are formidable, it may be readily inferred that far more formidable are our… — 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… — Max Perutz
- The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions. — Thomas Banchoff
- PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance… — 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… — Richard Dawkins