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“said that in non-Euclidean geometry space has a curvature, but this way of stating the matter is misleading, since it seems to imply a…

— Hendrik Antoon Lorentz

“There is no geometry here; or rather there is a secret, infinitely non-Eucledian and subtle geometry, a secret harmony that the mind seizes before…

— Alan Macfarlane

Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has…

— Arthur Cayley

“We must here follow the first course so as to be able to pass on later to generalisations which extend beyond the limits of…

— Hermann Weyl

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

— Henri Poincare

“an impossible geometry”

— Alessandro Baricco

...the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and…

— Hans Reichenbach

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

— Robert M. Pirsig

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

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

— Pythagoras

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

— Johannes Kepler

“No very good sense can be given to the idea that the elements of Euclidean geometry may be found in nature because either everything…

— David Berlinski