Straight line Quote by J.M.R. Higgs Download Open image ““There was no such thing as a straight line until mathematicians invented one.”” — J.M.R. Higgs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Straight line
“It is the same with mathematics, which would certainly not have arisen if it had been known from the beginning that in Nature there… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.” — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“Suppose you're teaching math. You assume that parallel lines meet at infinity. You'll admit that adds up to something like transcendence.” — Günter Grass Copy Share Image
Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Mathematicians are finite, flawed beings who spend their lives trying to understand the infinite and perfect.” — Bruce Schechter Copy Share Image
“Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I liked maths because it meant solving problems, and these problems were difficult and interesting but there was always a straightforward answer at the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Slackers were not well dressed, because there was no reason to dress smartly. Their uniform was old jeans, Converse trainers and warm, practical lumberjack… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
“and they had the suitcase with them. "Come on, we're going to do it now", said Drummond. Reid asked why. "There's just a time… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
“The pre-Thatcher state had functioned on the understanding that there was such a thing as society. Governments on both sides of the Atlantic had… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
“The great German physicist Max Planck had been advised by his lecturer, the marvellously named Philipp von Jolly, not to pursue the study of… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
“American Christianity did not undergo the church-emptying declines of European Christianity. Its perspective was similar to that of Mother Teresa, who in 1988 said,… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
“Greer recognised that the direction the sexual revolution was taking was not in the interests of women. “Sex must be rescued from the traffic… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
“As the old Russian joke goes, capitalism was the exploitation of man by man, whereas communism was the reverse.” — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
“The initial shooting that led to the conflict was itself a farce. The assassin in question was a Yugoslav nationalist named Gavrilo Princip. He… — J.M.R. Higgs Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“I'd watch his smooth chest rise and fall with each steady breath, I'd watch the pulsating of his stomach when he laughed, and I'd… — Ashley Newell Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Do More. Be More. You were made for more! Take all the chances and leaps. Every single step of the journey is a maze… — Chinonye J. Chidolue Copy Share Image
“A body needs at least three points of support, not in a straight line, to fix its position, so Roithamer had written.” — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
“Finally, every society develops a system of aesthetic standards that get manifested in everything from decorative art, music, and dance to the architecture and… — David Livermore Copy Share Image
I see that the path of progress has never taken a straight line, but has always been a zigzag course amid the conflicting forces… — Kelly Miller Copy Share Image
The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Chapter One: The world is flat. I know it is, because for the last five hours the view has been exactly the same. Only… — R.P. Dahlke Copy Share Image
There's no straight line between closing the mental institutions and filling the prisons but there is some sort of relationship. And it's hard to… — Peter Moskos Copy Share Image
