Geometry Quote by Eric Temple Bell Download Open image “The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.” — Eric Temple Bell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Geometry Ingenuity Royal Science
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole.… — Julian Coolidge Copy Share Image
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. — Akira Yoshizawa Copy Share Image
“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that he feels… — G.H. Hardy Copy Share Image
The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes,… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for… — Eric Temple Bell 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