Angle Quote by Paul Laffoley

“It was about as close as you could get to the platonic ideal of a ham, if Plato had spent more time discussing hams…

— Gideon Defoe

“Buckminster Fuller explained to me once that because our world is constructed from geometric relations like the Golden Ratio or the Fibonacci Series, by…

— Einar Thorsteinn

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

“What's the matter?" said the old man. "Can't you make up your mind what kind you want?" The kid laughed. "I want them all."…

— Jerry Spinelli

So too Plato was, in my view, a very unreliable Platonist. He was too much of a philosopher to think that anything he had…

— Gilbert Ryle

“Kepler followed Proclus and believed that 'the main goal of Euclid was to build a geometric theory of the so-called Platonic solids.' Kepler was…

— C. Smoryński

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

— Clement of Alexandria

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

— Plato

It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a…

— Bertrand Russell

Plato was a bore.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Geometry existed before creation.

— Plato

“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