Best Geometrical Quotes
44 Geometrical quotes by 38 unique authors
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...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or…
— Carl Gustav Hempel
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... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his…
— Plutarch
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No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.
— Alfred North Whitehead
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The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.
— David Hilbert
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The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible…
— Galileo Galilei
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General relativity is the cornerstone of cosmology and astrophysics. It has also provided the conceptual basis for string theory and other attempts to unify all…
— Paul Davies
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The concept of an independent system is a pure creation of the imagination. For no material system is or can ever be perfectly isolated from…
— Lawrence Joseph Henderson
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Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like where I came…
— Wallace Stegner
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Sit down, keep your back straight, relax and have an object on which to concentrate; you might use a candle flame, a brightly colored rock,…
— Frederick Lenz
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[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most…
— Thomas Malthus
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We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.
— Aristotle
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I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.
— Alberto Manguel
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There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
— Martin Gardner
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Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
— Thomas Malthus
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Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it…
— Galileo Galilei
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In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again.…
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
— Thomas Malthus
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This simple idea served to provide information on the geometrical shape of reacting molecules, and I was able to make the role of the frontier…
— Kenichi Fukui
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To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a manso concentrates his attentionon a landscape, a poem, a geometrical…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
Who Wrote These Geometrical Quotes
38 authors contributed a total of 44 Geometrical Quotes, led by these top contributors: