Ancients Quote by Stephen M. Barr

Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The…

— Johannes Kepler

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

— Johannes Kepler

“In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere,”

— L.M. Montgomery

“As I explain at some length in 'The Crystal Sun' this particular angle, which we can call the 'golden angle,' is the precise value…

— Robert K.G. Temple

“We therefore find that the triangles and rectangles herein described, enclose a large majority of the temples and cathedrals of the Greek and Gothic…

— Samuel Colman

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

— John Desmond Bernal

“Look at your fingers, how the first joint is longer than the second is longer than the end joint. The ratio is Phi, after…

— Chuck Palahniuk

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

— Albert Einstein

“When it comes to making art, our intuition is often light-years ahead of our intellect.”

— Ted Orland

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the…

— Thomas Little Heath

“The very idea of Palaeolithic art was deeply disturbing. Was not art one of the great achievements of high civilizations?”

— James David Lewis-Williams