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“There are only three Platinic solids in 5D. No problem; we'll check 6D. In six dimensions, there are still exactly the same regular shapes:…

— Matt Parker

“I find it fascinating that regular shapes can go from there being infinitely many in 2D, to five and six options in 3D and…

— Matt Parker

“In Euclid's Elements we meet the concept which later plays a significant role in the development of science. The concept is called the "division…

— Alexey Stakhov

The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to…

— Guillaume Apollinaire

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

— John Allen Paulos

The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.

— Paul Laffoley

“Plato argued that the material world of visible things was but a shadow of the true reality of eternal forms. He proceeds to explain…

— John D. Barrow

“Yet there have been and still are mathematicians and philosophers who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely, the whole of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

— John Desmond Bernal

I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize,…

— Alfred North Whitehead

“The MathWorld entry currently ends with the quiet plea: 'A modern survey would be welcome.' All we seem to be doing at the moment…

— Matt Parker

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in…

— Werner Heisenberg