Geometry Quotes

226 quotes by 166 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
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
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
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
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
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
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
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Henri Poincare
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
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
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
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
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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