Geometrical Figures Quotes
- ...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
- ... 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
- The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas. — David Hilbert
- 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
- 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