Geometry Quotes - Page 3

• Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Clouds, Circles, Mountain

  Michael Frame, Benoit Mandelbrot (2002). “Fractals, Graphics, and Mathematics Education”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

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• Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Poetry, Literature, May

  Letter to Madame Louise Colet, August 14, 1853.

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• Geometry is the rules of all mental investigation

  Mikhail Lomonosov

  Investigation

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• Projective geometry is all geometry.

  Arthur Cayley

  Math, Mathematics, Mathematical

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• The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued. The saved become the saviors of their saviors.

  Dean Koontz

  Hate, Pride, Snakes

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.107, Bantam

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• Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

  Steven Chu

  Firsts, Remember, Exciting

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• Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unraveling fully the natural laws which govern reality, we find them to be expressible by mathematical relations of surprising simplicity and architectonic perfection. It seems to me to be one of the chief objects of mathematical instruction to develop the faculty of perceiving this simplicity and harmony.

  Hermann Weyl

  Beauty, Art, Reality

  Hermann Weyl (1950). “Space, Time, Matter”, p.23, Courier Corporation

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• And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .

  Albrecht Durer

  Art, Math, Foundation

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• I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

  Jane Wagner

  Distance, Two, Parent

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• The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe. Physics is no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, fields of force, into geometry, or even into time and space. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.

  John P. Wheeler III

  Independent, Science, Space

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• One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Science, Convenient

  1974 Zen and theArt of MotorcycleMaintenance, pt.3, ch.22.

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• Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.

  Sophie Germain

  Algebra, Written

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

  Jean Cocteau

  Freedom, Math, Doors

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• Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

  Thomas Hobbes

  God, Mathematical, Mankind

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 1, ch. 4

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• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. . . Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Math, Science, Mechanic

  "Solid Shape". Book by Jan J. Koenderink, 1990.

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• I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Real, Squares, Three

  "Westwood ho!" by Alix Sharkey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2001.

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• Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

  Euclid

  Giving, Gains

  Euclid (1956). “The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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• I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and drudgery is unavoidable before they can get started, and bad teaching can make them unintelligible even to a born mathematician.

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Teaching, Failure, Mean

  "Littlewood's Miscellany".

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• Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Uprising, Triangles, Arithmetic

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• A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

  Mary Karr

  Games, Pool, Ritual

  Mary Karr (2015). “The Liars' Club: Picador Classic”, p.279, Pan Macmillan

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• The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.

  Eric Bell

  Moving, Math, Cowboy

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• I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

  Erno Rubik

  Three, Passionate, Study

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• About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and "twas the 47 El. libri I" [Pythagoras' Theorem]. He read the proposition "By God", sayd he, "this is impossible:" So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.

  John Aubrey

  Love, Truth, Years

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• Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Poetry Is, Precise

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• There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

  Martin Gardner

  Differences, Behinds, Stills

  "Mathematical Magic Show: More Puzzles, Games, Diversions, Illusions and Other Mathematical Sleight-Of-Mind from Scientific American". Book by Martin Gardner, 1977.

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