"The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple……" — Le Corbusier
"The mathematical phenomenon always develops out of simple arithmetic, so useful in everyday life, out of numbers, those weapons of the gods: the gods are there, behind the wall, at play with numbers."
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27 Quotes by Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier has 27 quotes on this site.
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Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
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Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.
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It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
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The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature.…
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Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
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The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
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Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see…
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By law, all buildings should be white.
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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
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When does a building actually become a built?
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My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life--the poetry.
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More Arithmetic Quotes
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It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be…
— Benjamin Franklin
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God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your…
— Thomas Brooks
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There is a science of getting rich, and it is an exact science, like algebra or arithmetic. There are certain…
— Wallace D. Wattles
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It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do."
— T. Harv Eker
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As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the…
— Roger Bacon
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Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more…
— Bertrand Russell
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A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Mathematics is the queen of the sciences and arithmetic [number theory] is the queen of mathematics. She often condescends to…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same…
— Bertrand Meyer
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I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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In fact, Gentlemen, no geometry without arithmetic, no mechanics without geometry... you cannot count upon success, if your mind is…
— Unknown Author
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it…
— Sofia Kovalevskaya
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