Geometry Quotes

226 quotes by 166 authors

Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up cold relations of… — James Joseph Sylvester
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I should… — Rene Thom
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor… — Eric Bell
I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me. — Sigmund Freud
About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open,… — John Aubrey
Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason… — Aristotle
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It grew without a… — Benoit Mandelbrot
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently. — Benoit Mandelbrot
We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Did you measure to attain your height? Did you use geometry to radiate your limb? Did you lament storm-torn branches? Did you inventory your leaves… — Ming-Dao Deng
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? — George Iles
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all… — David Mumford
[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn. — Eric Temple Bell
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. — Marcus du Sautoy
For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to… — Henry John Stephen Smith
Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. — Steven Chu
Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy. — Plato
The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry. — Louis de Bernieres
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and… — Albert Einstein
Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton… — Voltaire

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