Geometry Quotes - Page 2

• Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nature, Lying, Science

  "Benoît Mandelbrot obituary' by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2010.

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• Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

  Ibn Khaldun

  Math, Mind, Intellect

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• When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.

  Walter Cronkite

  Stars, Years, Ideas

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• No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Math, Employment, Invention

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• Writing is the geometry of the soul.

  Plato

  Writing, Soul

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• Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

  Shakuntala Devi

  Math, Science, Numbers

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• A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

  Jacques Lacan

  Sex, Doe, Development

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• Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

  Xenocrates

  Philosophy, Handle, Science And Philosophy

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• Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Thinking, Jumping, Lessons

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• Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Beauty, Art

  "Greatness: Who Makes History and Why". Book by Dean Keith Simonton, May 20, 1994.

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• Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  World, Helping, Mathematics

  "The Fractal Geometry of Nature". Book by Benoit Mandelbrot, 1982.

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• That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.

  Euclid

  Fall, Science, Two

  Euclid, Dana Densmore (2002). “Euclid's Elements: all thirteen books complete in one volume : the Thomas L. Heath translation”, Green Lion Pr

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• Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Independent, Humans, Human Beings

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• The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

  Euclid

  Royal

  Quoted in Proclus, Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elementa

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• As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.

  Joseph-Louis Lagrange

  Two, Long, Perfection

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• One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

  Henri Poincare

  Mathematics, Convenient, Theorems

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.85, Modern Library

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• Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

  Annie Dillard

  Fear, Flower, Rocks

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• Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.

  Johannes Kepler

  God, Math, Science

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• Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Henri Poincare

  Truth, Science, Mathematical

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• Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.

  Plato

  Doors, Destitute

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• Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.

  Johannes Kepler

  Mean, Math, Jewels

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• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

  E. W. Howe

  Education, Teenage, Teaching

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• Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

  Johannes Kepler

  Shining, Mind, Eternal

  "Astrology, Science, and Society: Historical Essays" edited by P. Curry, (p. 154), 1987.

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• Music is geometry in time.

  Arthur Honegger

  Music Is

  "I am a Composer". Book by Arthur Honegger, 1951.

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