Geometry Quotes

226 quotes by 166 authors

So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many… — Nicolaus Copernicus
Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience… — William Howard Taft
One might suppose that reality must be held to at all costs. However, though that may be the moral thing to do, it is not… — Isaac Asimov
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. — Jean Cocteau
I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are… — Christopher Alexander
Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark. — John Jewel
It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul. — Plato
Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation... — Johannes Kepler
Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them. — Rudolf Steiner
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of… — Michael Atiyah
Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape — Kim Stanley
I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst. — Nathan Kress
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous… — Henri Poincare
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... — John Dryden
In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry. — Paul Valery
Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to… — Ibn Khaldun
We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought… — Albert Einstein
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or… — Carl Gustav Hempel

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