Angle Quote by Johann Heinrich Lambert

The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere.…

— Pliny the Elder

“In this manner , we are told, the system of the imaginary is spread circularly, by detours and returns the length of an empty subject.”

— Roland Barthes

“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

I presume that to the uninitiated the formulae will appear cold and cheerless; but let it be remembered that, like other mathematical formulae, they…

— Benjamin Peirce

“Therefor I doubt not but, if it had been a thing contrary to any man’s right of dominion, or to the interest of men…

— Thomas Hobbes

I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others…

— Christopher Columbus

“an impossible geometry”

— Alessandro Baricco

“Thus content with an inner sphere which they inhabit together, it is not immediately that the outward world can obtrude itself upon their notice.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

The cube and the sphere are the sole working tools of creation

— Walter Russell

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

— Anonymous

“If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.”

— Charles-Louis de Secondat, de la Brède et de Montesquieu

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

— Baron de Montesquieu