Geometry Quote by Xenocrates Download Open image “Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.” — Xenocrates ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Geometry Handle Mathematics Philosophy Science Science and philosophy
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy. — Plato Copy Share Image
One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot. — Xenocrates Copy Share Image
Antipater uses us favourably if he looks upon us as staves, but very hardly if he considers us as freemen. — Xenocrates Copy Share Image
An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot. — Xenocrates Copy Share Image
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it. — Xenocrates Copy Share Image
Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root'… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers. — Vladimir Arnold Copy Share Image
“This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed to have… — John Pile Copy Share Image
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy. — Plato Copy Share Image
I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline… — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
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