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- The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce
- It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of adventure and… — Alfred North Whitehead
- God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how… — Thomas Brooks
- Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important to have… — Henryk Skolimowski
- I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the least connexion… — Henri Poincare
- The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than… — Henry David Thoreau
- 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
- Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the… — Johannes Kepler
- Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be… — Johannes Kepler
- Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes and Pascal-were… — Charles Sanders Peirce
- The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in… — John Stuart Mill