Degrees Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

— Plato

Why do people measure life by the years instead of how good the years were?

— Gabriel Iglesias

“Earth’s axis precesses 360 degrees in 25,772 years; which means that it precesses one degree in 71.5888 years marking thereby an offset of 0.4111…

— Ibrahim Ibrahim

If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no…

— Simone Weil

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience...

— Erwin Schrodinger

“The ancient Egyptian calendar is Precessionally Sexagesimal (Besides being theologically/decanally decimal). That means that the toggling between its "enhanced" Civil Calendar (i.e., 365 days…

— Ibrahim Ibrahim

Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

— Plutarch

When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by…

— Walter Cronkite

Before you measure the years, you measure the days.

— Mitch Albom

The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the…

— Benjamin Peirce