Golden-ratio Quote by Willem Witteveen

“The Golden Ratio defines the squaring of a circle. Stated in mathematical terms, this says: Given a square of known perimeter, create a circle…

— Marja de Vries

“The golden ratio is a reminder of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its potential future…

— Robert Lawlor

“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

“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

“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

“Highly complex numbers like the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and Phi (sometimes called the Golden Proportion), are known as irrational numbers. They lie deep…

— Mark Booth Jonathan Black

“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

“The Pythagoreans... were fascinated by certain specific ratios, ...The Greeks knew these as the 'golden' proportion and the 'perfect' proportion respectively. They may well…

— Graham Flegg

“Scaling up the dimensions of the Great Pyramid's base by 7 multiples (chasing thereby the extent of 7 days) corresponds to a 1,000 magnification…

— Ibrahim Ibrahim

“In his ... 'Geometrical peculiarities of the Pyramids', Ballard shows the relationship between the equal area theory and the golden number. After checking Herodotus'…

— Roger Herz-Fischler

“The Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts.”

— Richard Heath

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