Geometry Quotes

226 quotes by 166 authors

No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and… — Pat Conroy
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent… — Alain Badiou
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency.… — John Kennedy Toole
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry… — Angela Carter
The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a… — Dean Koontz
If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope. — P. C. Cast
The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn into a vampyre,… — P. C. Cast
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. — Thomas Jefferson
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the… — J D Salinger
But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting… — Neal Stephenson
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition. Now it… — Vera Nazarian
The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with… — Richard P. Feynman
His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken… — Hermann Hesse
Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is… — Neal Stephenson
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or… — Jon Krakauer
Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and… — Ellen Hopkins
You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught… — H.G. Wells
Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down… — Peter Watts
It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we… — Lorraine Hansberry

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