Geometry Quote by Thomas Hobbes

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

— George Polya

I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is…

— Frederick The Great

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

And therefore in geometry (which is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind), men begin at settling the…

— Thomas Hobbes

The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively…

— David van Dantzig

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as…

— Hermann Weyl

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.

— Jean Cocteau

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

— Johannes Kepler

There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man…

— John Dee

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

— Nicholas Murray Butler

. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most…

— Henri Poincare

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

— Thomas Hobbes