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
Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words;
geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures. — Sophie Germain
Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right — Ibn Khaldun
Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra. — Sophie Germain
It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul. — Plato
Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry. — Alexander Pushkin
Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy. — Plato
The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal. — Plato
Short Geometry Quotes
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. — Pythagoras
Sire, there is no royal road to geometry. — Euclid
Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns. — Euclid
The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. — Jean Cocteau
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless. — Euripides
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. — Henri Poincare
There are no sects in geometry. — Voltaire
Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. — Stephen Hawking
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert
Geometry Image Quotes
Math Geometry Quotes
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers. — Shakuntala Devi
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful. — Aristotle
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
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
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
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate. — David Mumford
There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability. — Anya Kamenetz
In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry. — Paul Valery
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Sayings
Mathematic Quotes
The laws of nature are written by the hand of God in the language of mathematics. — Galileo Galilei
To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence. — Cesar Chavez
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. — Euclid
No, it is a very interesting number, it is the smallest number expressible as a sum of two cubes in two different ways. — Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty. — Archimedes
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth. — Jean Piaget
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. — Galileo Galilei
If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is. — John Von Neumann
I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind. — Lord Kelvin
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. — John Von Neumann
Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently. — Benoit Mandelbrot
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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
In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle. — Euclid
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
I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals. — Benoit Mandelbrot
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
My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite. — Akira Yoshizawa
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at. — Thomas Brooks
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
The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus of Geometry [as did Clifford], for geometry is only a part of the vaster domain which he renovated; it might even be just to designate him as a Copernicus of all thought. — Eric Temple Bell
I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time. — Antony Garrett Lisi
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
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra. — Augustin-Louis Cauchy
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
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
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory of design, arithmetic. — Lorenzo Ghiberti
A firm rule must be imposed upon our nation before it destroys itself. The United States needs some theology and geometry, some taste and decency. I suspect that we are teetering on the edge of the abyss. — John Kennedy Toole
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. — Federico Garcia Lorca
In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way. — Leonhard Euler
I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are alike simply in that they all animate space. It is this animated space that has its functional effect upon the world, that determines the way things work, that governs the presence of harmony and life. — Christopher Alexander
The greatest pleasure is not - say - sex or geometry. It is just understanding. And if you can get people to understand their own humanity - well, that's the job of the writer. — William Golding
No story is a straight line. The geometry of a human life is too imperfect and complex, too distorted by the laughter of time and the bewildering intricacies of fate to admit the straight line into its system of laws. — Pat Conroy
We are, all four of us, blood relatives, and we speak a kind of esoteric, family language, a sort of semantic geometry in which the shortest distance between any two points is a fullish circle. — J. D. Salinger
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