Best 92 quotes in «geometry quotes» category

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is not just any trajectory of a dynamical system. It is the trajectory toward which all other trajectories converge.

The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the keys to the essence of a thing

They asked for Plato's assistance. He told them: "You hated wisdom and ran away from geometry, therefore God has afflicted you a punishment, for wisdom and philosophical knowledge have a high rank with God." ... The plague was lifted and they ceased to defame the branches of theoretical knowledge.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This maxim holds not only in geometry, but in business as well.

Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!

They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence.

This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed to have both aesthetic and mystic significance. That the Egyptians knew of it and used it seems certain.

What music is to the heart, mathematics is to the mind.

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

To a scholar, mathematics is music.

We shall understand the mode of purification by confession, and that of contemplation by analysis, advancing by analysis to the first notion, beginning with the properties underlying it; abstracting from the body its physical properties, taking away the dimension of depth, then that of breadth, and then that of length. For the point which remains is a unit, so to speak, having position; from which if we abstract position, there is the conception of unity.

What if Loves are analogous to math? First, arithmetic, then geometry and algebra, then trig and quadratics…

Geometry existed before creation.

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

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

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

Geometry is the rules of all mental investigation

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

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

Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

Gravity is a response to geometry.

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

It turns out that hyperbolic structures are very common in nature, and the place where lots of people encounter them is coral reefs. Sea slugs, and a lot of other organisms with frilly forms, are biological manifestations of hyperbolic geometry, which is also found in the structure of lettuce leaves and kales, and some species of cactus.

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape

Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

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

Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

Projective geometry is all geometry.

The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

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

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry.

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

There are no sects in geometry.

A circle has no end.