Geometry Quotes

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  There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

  Pythagoras

  Science, Spheres, Guitar Strings

  Quoted in Aristotle Metaphysics.

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• Where there is matter, there is geometry.

  Johannes Kepler

  Math, Science, Matter

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• Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Math, Soul

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.7552, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

  Johannes Kepler

  World, Mathematics, Archetype

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• Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

  Plato

  Eye, Soul

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• I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

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• Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

  Pythagoras

  Math

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• Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Fall, Math, Errors

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• Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

  Stephen Hawking

  Bored, Physics, Boring

  "Stephen Hawking: A Biography". Book by Kristine Larsen, 2005.

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• Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

  Albrecht Durer

  Teaching, Math, Foundation

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• Geometry existed before creation.

  Plato

  Math, Creation

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• Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

  George Polya

  Education, Math, Figures

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• Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

  Plato

  Soul, Draws

  Plato (2001). “Plato's Republic: The Theatre of the Mind”, p.273, Agora Publications, Inc.

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• In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Attitude, Order, Discipline

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words;
  geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

  Sophie Germain

  Algebra

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• I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Prayer, Teaching, School

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• Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation.

  Johannes Kepler

  Mind, Creation, Models

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• Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

  Plato

  Difficult, Prove, Subjects

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• Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

  Henri Poincare

  Art, Math, Figures

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• The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

  Plato

  Plato, Knowledge, Math

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• I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.

  Ta-Nehisi Coates

  World, Shapes, Strange

  Ta-Nehisi Coates (2008). “The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood”, p.220, Spiegel & Grau

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• The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

  Isaac Newton

  Math, Circles, Doe

  Isaac Newton (1966). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The motion of bodies”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Heart, Littles, Likes

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.256, Vintage

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• Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes.

  Johannes Kepler

  God, Taken, Eye

  Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, Alistair Matheson Duncan, Judith Veronica Field (1997). “The Harmony of the World”, p.304, American Philosophical Society

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