Eupalinos Quote by Paul Valéry

“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

“Between the lines Phaedrus read no doubts, no sense of awe, only the eternal smugness of the professional academician.”

— Robert M. Pirsig

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

— Johannes Kepler

Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole.…

— Julian Coolidge

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

— Plato

“an impossible geometry”

— Alessandro Baricco

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

— Hermann Hesse

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

— William Whewell

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that…

— Johannes Kepler

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

— Akira Yoshizawa

“ 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