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The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry. -- James Joseph Sylvester
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. -- Carl Sandburg
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. -- Saul Bellow
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. -- Eric Temple Bell
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. -- Eric Temple Bell
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. -- Arthur Cayley
I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. -- Thomas Jefferson
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament. -- Augustus De Morgan
Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline. -- Alain Badiou
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
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game. -- G. H. Hardy
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism, which produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Euclid for children is barbarous. -- Oliver Heaviside
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry." -- James Joseph Sylvester
The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. -- Augustus De Morgan
The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke. -- John Allen Paulos
If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have plenty of material for the task. -- G. H. Hardy
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious. -- Oliver Heaviside
Euclid ... manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does. -- Lucio Russo
Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay
I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that there are infinitely many primes. Immediately the host interrupted me and asked, 'Are there still infinitely many primes?' -- Noga Alon
Euclid 's manner of exposition, progressing relentlessly from the data to the unknown and from the hypothesis to the conclusion, is perfect for checking the argument in detail but far from being perfect for making understandable the main line of the argument. -- George Polya
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous. Mathematicians have disdained this challenge, however, and have increasingly chosen to flee from nature by devising theories unrelated to anything we can see or feel. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory. -- Walter Bagehot
My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second, at Flatiron, was Internet to bubble. And the third, at USV, has been web 2 to mobile. I have always used a new firm to denote a new investment phase for me. Throw away the old. Start with the new. -- Fred Wilson
I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies. -- Abraham Lincoln
At the age of eleven, I began Euclid, with my brother as my tutor. ... I had not imagined that there was anything so delicious in the world. After I had learned the fifth proposition, my brother told me that it was generally considered difficult, but I had found no difficulty whatsoever. This was the first time it had dawned on me that I might have some intelligence. -- Bertrand Russell

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