Convinced Quote by John Aubrey

“His idea was to begin with those broad truths that must underlie all conceivable mental existences and establish a basis on those. The great…

— H.G. Wells

“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the…

— William Kingdon Clifford

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

— James Joseph Sylvester

“Kepler followed Proclus and believed that 'the main goal of Euclid was to build a geometric theory of the so-called Platonic solids.' Kepler was…

— C. Smoryński

“At the Stourbridge Fair in 1663, at age twenty, he purchased a book on astrology, “out of a curiosity to see what there was…

— Carl Sagan

“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

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

— Johannes Kepler

“On what may be the last page he wrote in his notebooks, Leonardo drew four right triangles with bases of differing lengths (fig. 143).…

— Walter Isaacson

It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a…

— Bertrand Russell

“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

“Geometry exist everywhere.It is necessary, however, to have eyes to see it, intelligence to understand it , and spirit to wonder at it.The wild…

— Anonymous

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

— Ibn Khaldun