Geometric Quotes

39 quotes by 38 authors

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least… — Frank Lloyd Wright
It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as a… — Christian B. Anfinsen
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects. — Johannes Kepler
For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been… — Vidal Sassoon
The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something… — Robert Rauschenberg
New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a… — Roland Barthes
It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to… — Thomas Reid
These abnormal aspects included the shapes of UFOs and their behavior. Most of the UFOs seen in the daytime were said to have had simple… — Don Berliner
Algebras are geometric facts which are proved. — Omar Khayyam
In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost… — Martin Gardner
Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form — Anish Kapoor
I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams… — Paul Lockhart
The regular division of the plane into congruent figures evoking an association in the observer with a familiar natural object is one of these hobbies… — M.C. Escher
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from… — Ira Levin
Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors… — Alan Cooper
As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living. — Jean Piaget
What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein - Ad Reinhardt,… — John Yau
...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians… — Henri Poincare
... if one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice… — Henri Lebesgue
We humans have a wide range of abilities that help us perceive and analyze mathematical content. We perceive abstract notions not just through seeing but… — William Thurston

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