Geometry Quote by Claude Debussy Download Open image “Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.” — Claude Debussy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Geometry Geometry Light Light Mathematics Music Music Arithmetic Optics Optics Geometry Song Sounds Optics
Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears. — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
“Music is a mixed mathematical science that concerns the origens, attributes, and distinctions of sound, out of which a cultivated and lovely melody and… — Christoph Wolff Copy Share Image
To me music is the sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition. It's both… — Warren Jeffs Copy Share Image
Peter Townsend Music is the silence between the notes.. So could it be said that dance is the stillness between the steps? — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
There is nothing more musical than a sunset. He who feels what he sees will find no more beautiful example of development in all… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all,… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
the colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams. — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root'… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
“This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed to have… — John Pile Copy Share Image
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
![“Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we…” quote by Jean le Rond d'Alembert](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0d9/jean-le-rond-d-alembert-26487_able_geometry-which-should-only-obey-physics_6945.jpg)
