Analogies Quote by Marcel Duchamp

Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are. I for…

— Marcel Duchamp

If a shadow is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional world, then the three-dimensional world as we know it is the projection of the…

— Marcel Duchamp

“Since a three-dimensional object casts a two-dimensional shadow, we should be able to imagine the unknown four-dimensional object whose shadow we are.”

— Marcel Duchamp

To tell you the truth, I've never met anybody who can envision more than three dimensions. There are some who claim they can, and…

— Brian Greene

There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within…

— Louis L'Amour

It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!

— Stephen Hawking

One thing is sure - we have to transform the three-dimensional world of objects into the two-dimensional world of the canvas.. ..To transform three…

— Max Beckmann

Size, perspective- large objects, when you make them too 3D, you dimensionalize them too much, they appear tiny, so you have to be careful…

— Bryan Singer

“There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time. There is, however, a tendency to…

— H.G. Wells

An attempt at visualizing the Fourth Dimension: Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a…

— Albert Einstein

You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People…

— Leonard Susskind

Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my…

— H. G. Wells