Geometers Quotes
- ...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in… — Seneca the Younger
- These long chains of perfectly simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to carry out their most difficult demonstrations had led… — Rene Descartes
- I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries… — Democritus
- The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
- The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the… — Guillaume Apollinaire
- But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason… — William James