Cones Quote by James Joseph Sylvester

“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up…

— Tom Stoppard

“When we were only several hundred-thousand years old, we built stone circles, water clocks. Later, someone forged an iron spring, set clockwork running, imagined…

— William Gibson

Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should…

— Archimedes

Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry…

— Archimedes

“You see - the moulded whimsy of a frieze on a portico keeps us from recognizing, sometimes, the symmetry of the whole... You will…

— Vladimir Nabokov

About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting 'Heureka!', plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he…

— Lucio Russo

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the…

— Thomas Little Heath

For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a…

— Louis J. Halle

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble…

— Daniel Webster

Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our…

— Guillermo del Toro

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

— Pericles

This is *our* Universe, our museum of wonder and beauty, our cathedral.

— John Archibald Wheeler