Quotes of: Geometry Keyword

Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.

Plato

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

John Jewel

There is no royal road to geometry.

Euclid

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

James Joseph Sylvester

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

Dorothy Hodgkin

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most powerful expressions of that sovereignty of the i...

Hermann Weyl

You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.

Paul Rand

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

Steven Chu

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.

Marcus du Sautoy

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry.

Margaret Wertheim

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.

Nathan Kress

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Federico Garcia Lorca

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry.

Ron Eglash

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

Henri Poincare

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

Gustave Flaubert

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Louis de Bernieres

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

Erno Rubik

While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

Ron Eglash

’s discovery would not have been possible without the doctrine of conics. Now contemporaries of —such penetrating minds as and —were abandoning the study of geometry ... because they said it was so UTTERLY USELESS. There was the future of the h...

Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, Volumes V and VI, Pragmatism and Pragmaticism and Scientific Metaphysics

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

Shia LaBeouf

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

Martin Gardner