"There is geometry in the humming of the……" — Pythagoras

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• The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great… — Benjamin Peirce
• It is impossible not to feel stirred at the thought of the emotions of man at certain historic moments of… — Alfred North Whitehead
• God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your… — Thomas Brooks
• Fortunate are the nations that can build wooden houses. Because wood breathes, transforms, deteriorates, like us. It is also important… — Henryk Skolimowski
• I then began to study arithmetical questions without any great apparent result, and without suspecting that they could have the… — Henri Poincare
• The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger… — Henry David Thoreau
• 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property. — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
• Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one… — Johannes Kepler
• Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could… — Johannes Kepler
• Kepler's discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of Kepler-such penetrating minds as Descartes… — Charles Sanders Peirce
• The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever… — John Stuart Mill

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