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“Sharp angles make his face hard but that's nothing compared to what his eyes hold.”

— Stephanie Fleshman

“I want to drink the knowledge of Pythagorus's theorem.”

— Truth Devour

“His thoughts were hemmed in. One can only draw curved lines on the terrestrial sphere which, as they extend, forever meet with themselves. At…

— Raymond Queneau

“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

“Never was his remarkable memory more useful than when he could see mathematics only in his mind's eye.”

— William Dunham

“On what may be the last page he wrote in his notebooks, Leonardo drew four right triangles with bases of differing lengths (fig. 143).…

— Walter Isaacson

“While he himself was marking out lines and courses on the wrinkled charts, some invisible pencil was also tracing lines and courses upon the…

— Herman Melville

“He couldn’t understand how I could be so bright in my other classes and a total failure in his. I must not be trying…

— Thom Satterlee

“He needed more than vague explanations and abstract ideas—but those were the very soul of art. If you could explain something perfectly, then you’d…

— Brandon Sanderson

“The eyes were dark and startling. They held such a wealth of intellect and of twinkling gaiety that his glasses seemed to be worn…

— Ayn Rand

“He might be fifty years old, and would have looked young for his age, had not constant work hardened his features, and given him…

— Anthony Trollope

“the outlines of his figure were indistinct—but his features were the features of a deity; for the mantle of the night, and of the…

— Edgar Allan Poe