Geometrical Quotes

44 quotes by 38 authors

Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the… — Terry Pratchett
The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated. — John Desmond Bernal
With the exception of the geometrical series, there does not exist in all of mathematics a single infinite series the sum of which has been… — Niels Henrik Abel
The personality and style of a photographer usually limits the type of subject with which he deals best. For example Cartier-Bresson is very interested in… — Alexey Brodovitch
Surprise quality can be achieved in many ways. It may be produced by a certain stimulating geometrical relationship between elements in the picture or through… — Alexey Brodovitch
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention - on a landscape, a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of… — Charles Darwin
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of… — Thomas Malthus
If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the… — William James
A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space. — Gaston Bachelard
We may, I believe, anticipate that the chemist of the future who is interested in the structure of proteins, nucleic acids, polysaccharides, and other complex… — Linus Pauling
The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. — Friedrich List
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether… — G. H. Hardy
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation… — Thomas Jefferson
If they would, for Example, praise the Beauty of a Woman, or any other Animal, they describe it by Rhombs, Circles, Parallelograms, Ellipses, and other… — Jonathan Swift
The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used, but these have… — James Joseph Sylvester
I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back with them from… — Swami Vivekananda
I like to think that Einstein would look at string theoryâ€™s journey and smile, enjoying the theoryâ€™s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow… — Brian Greene
The universe will finally become a ball of radiation, becoming more and more rarified and passing into longer and longer wave-lengths. The longest waves of… — Arthur Eddington
Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement. — Derek Barton

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