Geometer Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil… — Benjamin Peirce
• There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my… — Wallace Stegner
• Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer might be replaced… — Henri Poincare
• The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. — Evangelista Torricelli
• Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs. — Aristotle
• To the pure geometer the radius of curvature is an incidental characteristic - like the grin of the Cheshire cat. To the physicist it is… — Arthur Eddington
• The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me… — Evangelista Torricelli
• As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that… — Dante Alighieri
• How orderly philosophical is the landscape, are all the inhabitants of this World! It is the creation of a god who ever plays the geometer. — Aldous Huxley

Who Wrote These Geometer Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Geometer Quotes as follows:

• 2 Geometer Quotes by Evangelista Torricelli
• 1 Geometer Quote by Benjamin Peirce
• 1 Geometer Quote by Wallace Stegner
• 1 Geometer Quote by Henri Poincare
• 1 Geometer Quote by Aristotle
• 1 Geometer Quote by Arthur Eddington
• 1 Geometer Quote by Dante Alighieri
• 1 Geometer Quote by Aldous Huxley