Straight line Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

“The shortest distance between two points is always under construction. ”

— Rebecca McClanahan

“The shortest distance between two points is a time line, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Except in mathematics, the shortest distance between point A and point B is seldom a straight line. I don't believe in mathematics.

— Albert Einstein

“Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.”

— Hermann Hesse

“In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each other, has…

— Jose Saramago

“There was no such thing as a straight line until mathematicians invented one.”

— J.M.R. Higgs

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

— James Joseph Sylvester

“The shortest distance between two points is the line from me to you.”

— Fisher Amelie

“ 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

“It is the same with mathematics, which would certainly not have arisen if it had been known from the beginning that in Nature there…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“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