Geometry Quotes

226 quotes by 166 authors

As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been… — Arthur Cayley
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
A pool game mixes ritual with geometry. — Mary Karr
Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures. — George Polya
I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms. — Erno Rubik
Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little… — Robert Kanigel
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as… — Henry David Thoreau
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own… — William Golding
I keep looking for ultimate answers, but maybe there aren't any or maybe I'm not looking in the right places, because in the section marked… — Rachel Vail
The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus… — Eric Temple Bell
Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye… — Duane Michals
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church. — J. Michael Straczynski
A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry. — John B. S. Haldane
Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about. — Lindsay Fox
Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what each man feels within himself is… — David Hume
Since you are now studying geometry and trigonometry, I will give you a problem. A ship sails the ocean. It left Boston with a cargo… — Gustave Flaubert
At George Mason University I saw Hoppe present a lecture in which he claimed that Ludwig von Mises had set the intellectual foundation for not… — Tom G. Palmer
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events… — J. G. Ballard
He who would prove all life, leaves it empty. To know the way of everything is to be left with the geometry of things and… — Leopoldo Alas

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