Converses Quote by Rene Thom

Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has…

— Arthur Cayley

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

— Johannes Kepler

In reality the universe has no geometry.

— Kedar Joshi

“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in space as…

— Bernhard Riemann

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 is knowledge of the eternally existent.

— Pythagoras

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

— 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

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

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be…

— Hans Reichenbach

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

— Robert M. Pirsig

A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of…

— Robert Louis Stevenson