Geometry Quotes
226 quotes by 166 authors
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The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil…
— Benjamin Peirce
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It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and discovery - Columbus…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may…
— Thomas Brooks
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Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have flowers and plants…
— Henryk Skolimowski
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I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion with my previous…
— Henri Poincare
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The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one.…
— Henry David Thoreau
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'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property.
— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man…
— Johannes Kepler
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Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which…
— Johannes Kepler
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Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were abandoning the study…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
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The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of…
— John Stuart Mill
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I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few courses that seem…
— Steven Chu
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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
— Henri Poincare
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I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded…
— Frederick The Great
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Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate on such subjects…
— Blaise Pascal
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any…
— Andreas Osiander
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Either one or the other [analysis or synthesis] may be direct or indirect. The direct procedure is when the point of departure is known-direct synthesis…
— Andre-Marie Ampere
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