Geometry Quotes

226 quotes by 166 authors

I got into animals by drawing hair follicles. I liked drawing hair, and from that I got into feathers and fur, then into images of… — Kiki Smith
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of… — Jean-Baptiste Rousseau
The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the history… — Nicholas Murray Butler
[Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine atoms… — Henry Edward Armstrong
I am much occupied with the investigation of the physical causes [of motions in the Solar System]. My aim in this is to show that… — Johannes Kepler
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry. — James Joseph Sylvester
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with… — Eve Arnold
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the… — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament. — Augustus De Morgan
Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in this… — Augustus De Morgan
Geometry is the most complete science. — David Hilbert
In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle. — Euclid
Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry. — Arthur Cayley
That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools. — Thomas Hobbes
The best that Gauss has given us was likewise an exclusive production. If he had not created his geometry of surfaces, which served Riemann as… — Albert Einstein
The Hypotenuse has a square on, which is equal Pythagoras instructed, to the sum of the squares on the other two sides If a triangle… — Richard Digance
The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity. — Eric Temple Bell
In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy. — Nicholas of Cusa
I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time. — Antony Garrett Lisi
I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to denote all of… — Benoit Mandelbrot

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