Art Quote by Julian Coolidge

Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole.…

— Julian Coolidge

Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over…

— David Mumford

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

— Johannes Kepler

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

— Xenocrates

“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

They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

— Donald Judd

Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out…

— Jean Dieudonne

“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

“an impossible geometry”

— Alessandro Baricco

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that…

— Johannes Kepler

“How can you study geometry and not believe in a god? A god of perfect points and planes, surrounded by angels and angles of…

— Taylor Mali

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange