Geometry Quotes

226 quotes by 166 authors

We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of… — Heinrich Burkhardt
In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is not sufficiently exercised on the… — Jean-Victor Poncelet
The truth us that other systems of geometry are possible, yet after all, these other systems are not spaces but other methods of space measurements.… — Paul Carus
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The… — Julian Coolidge
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin
Where there is matter, there is geometry. — Johannes Kepler
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. — Thomas Hobbes
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. — Stephen Hawking
Geometry is the foundation of all painting. — Albrecht Durer
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else.… — Lynn Steen
This king [Sesostris] divided the land among all Egyptians so as to give each one a quadrangle of equal size and to draw from each… — Herodotus
I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because… — Alfred North Whitehead
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have… — Christopher Wren
A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
I can't stop biting my nails. It's a bad habit of mine. I like anything to do with math and numbers. I know a lot… — Khleo
I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if… — Jenny Holzer
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless. — Euripides
The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic. — Lorenzo Ghiberti
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. — Emile M. Cioran
An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature. — Charles Olson

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