Geometry Quotes

226 quotes by 166 authors

In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of… — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. — Guillaume Apollinaire
When I began my physical studies [in Munich in 1874] and sought advice from my venerable teacher Philipp von Jolly...he portrayed to me physics as… — Max Planck
Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent. — Pythagoras
When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a… — Walter Cronkite
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. — Martin Gardner
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry… — Annie Dillard
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. — E. W. Howe
People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream! — Shia LaBeouf
A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex… — Jacques Lacan
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Robert M. Pirsig
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. — Pythagoras
We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and… — Vidal Sassoon
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe… — Twyla Tharp
A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next… — Lewis Thomas
I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit… — Vivienne Westwood

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