Golden mean Quote by Robert Lawlor

“Golden Ratio is a powerful mathematical constant woven into the very fabric of biology. It is the unique visual tension between comforting symmetry and…

— Darrin Crescenzi

“The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.”

— Albert Einstein

“The description of this proportion as Golden or Divine is fitting perhaps because it is seen by many to open the door to a…

— H.E. Huntley

“The golden ratio, as well as the Great Pyramid as an expression of it, is an important key to our universe containing the Earth…

— Willem Witteveen

“The Golden Number is a mathematical definition of a proportional function which all of nature obeys, whether it be a mollusk shell, the leaves…

— Anonymous

“The Golden Proportion, sometimes called the Divine Proportion, has come down to us from the beginning of creation. The harmony of this ancient proportion,…

— Bonnie Gaunt

“Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa…

— Mario Livio

“The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca Pacioli in…

— Midhat Gazale

“All of Nature follows perfectly geometric laws. The Ancient Egyptian, Greek, Peruvian, Mayan, and Chinese cultures were well aware of this, as Phi—known as…

— Joseph P. Kauffman

“Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.”

— Stephen M. Barr

“In a way, the Phi Triangle of the Golden Mean could be compared to the path of light sent forth from the great All-Seeing…

— William Eisen

“Schwaller de Lubicz identifies the Golden Mean as "the fundamental scission," or division of one into two, that creates three things - the original…

— Richard Heath