Firsts Quote by John Edensor Littlewood

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

— Plato

“Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that he feels…

— G.H. Hardy

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate…

— Henry John Stephen Smith

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

— Liam Neeson

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

— Xenocrates

I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got…

— John Edensor Littlewood

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

— Steven Chu

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

— Archimedes

You can learn to find unknowns in equations, draw equidistant lines and demonstrate theorems, but in real life there's nothing to position, calculate, or…

— Delphine de Vigan

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry…

— Henry David Thoreau