Abstract Quote by Sydney Smith

“His idea was to begin with those broad truths that must underlie all conceivable mental existences and establish a basis on those. The great…

— H.G. Wells

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

— James A. Garfield

We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most…

— Walter Bagehot

It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of…

— Oliver Heaviside

“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the…

— William Kingdon Clifford

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

— James Joseph Sylvester

The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring…

— Edward Gibbon

[Kepler] preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, and that is the heart of science.

— Carl Sagan

About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay…

— John Aubrey

Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle…

— Catharine Cox Miles

In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet…

— Nikolai Lobachevsky

“The multiplication table is more wise and more absolute than the ancient god, for the multiplication table never (do you understand—never) makes mistakes! There…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin