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- The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce
- There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful… — Wallace Stegner
- Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means. The geometer… — 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… — Arthur Eddington
- The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish… — Evangelista Torricelli
- As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so… — Dante Alighieri