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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. -- Henri Poincare
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. -- Robert M. Pirsig
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
Projective geometry is all geometry. -- Arthur Cayley
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. -- Gustave Flaubert
Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. -- Steven Chu
Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art. -- Ellsworth Kelly
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. -- Claude Debussy
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! -- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres. -- Pythagoras
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. -- E. W. Howe
The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn. -- Isaac Newton
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
Geometry existed before creation. -- Plato
Geometry draws the soul towards truth. -- Plato
Geometry is the most complete science. -- David Hilbert
Geometry is the noblest branch of physics. -- William Fogg Osgood
Geometry is the foundation of all painting. -- Albrecht Durer
Geometry is the foundation of all painting." -- Albrecht Durer
Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent. -- Pythagoras
Geometry is the rules of all mental investigation -- Mikhail Lomonosov
Geometry was the first exciting course I remember." -- Steven Chu
Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors." -- Plato
Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right -- Ibn Khaldun
Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world. -- Johannes Kepler
Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy. -- Xenocrates
Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures. -- George Polya
Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art." -- Ellsworth Kelly
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God -- Johannes Kepler
Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures. -- Henri Poincare
Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy. -- Plato
Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys... -- John Dryden
Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. -- Thomas Hobbes
Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. -- Akira Yoshizawa
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! -- Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!" -- Comte de Lautreamont
Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind. -- Emily Dickinson
Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them. -- Rudolf Steiner
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law -- Wilfred Owen
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law. -- Wilfred Owen
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law." -- Wilfred Owen
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish." -- Federico Garcia Lorca
That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools. -- Thomas Hobbes
Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation... -- Johannes Kepler
Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning. -- William Whewell
The method of Fluxions is the general key by help whereof the modern mathematicians unlock the secrets of Geometry, and consequently of Nature. -- George Berkeley
Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry. -- David Hilbert
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
His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life. -- Hermann Hesse
His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life." -- Hermann Hesse
. . . 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. -- Henri Poincare
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
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." -- Pythagoras
Boarding-House Geometry DEFINITIONS AND AXIOMS All boarding-houses are the same boarding-house. Boarders in the same boarding-house and on the same flat are equal to one another. A single room is that which has no parts and no magnitude. The landlady of a boarding-house is a" -- Stephen Leacock
Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions. -- Marilyn vos Savant
The skill of making, and maintaining Common-wealths, consisteth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry; not (as Tennis-play) on Practise onely: which Rules, neither poor men have the leisure, nor men that have had the leisure, have hitherto had the curiosity, or the method to find out." -- Thomas Hobbes
There is no royal road to geometry. -- Euclid
Where there is matter, there is geometry. -- Johannes Kepler
You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong. -- Paul Rand
Sire, there is no royal road to geometry. -- Euclid
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry. -- James Joseph Sylvester
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry." -- James Joseph Sylvester
I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms. -- Erno Rubik
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. -- Henri Poincare
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. -- Marcus du Sautoy
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
I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time. -- Antony Garrett Lisi
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. -- Gustave Flaubert
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this. -- Lord Acton
Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about. -- Lindsay Fox
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. -- Martin Gardner
People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream! -- Shia LaBeouf
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
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
Fractal geometry is everywhere, even in lines drawn in the sand. It's the cycle of life... You see fractals in plants, in flowers. Within the human lung are branches within branches. -- Ron Eglash
Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea. -- Richard P. Feynman
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
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. -- Arthur Cayley
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
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
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images. -- Eve Arnold
The geometry reveals five development direction for applications (each with endless possibilities); dividing, dwelling, trestle, fenestration and artistic installation. I find these enabled designs so reflective of an ever-changing world where contextual factors and technological resources are shifting definitions of architecture, design, and the traditional boundaries between disciplines. -- Dror Benshetrit
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
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
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. 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... Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity. -- Benoit Mandelbrot
Beauty is geometry." -- J. K. Rowling
An impossible geometry" -- Alessandro Baricco
Projective geometry is all geometry." -- Arthur Cayley
There are no sects in geometry. -- Voltaire
Gravity is a response to geometry. -- Albert Einstein
Mighty is geometry joined with art resistless." -- Euripides
You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong." -- Paul Rand
In reality the universe has no geometry." -- Kedar Joshi
A pool game mixes ritual with geometry." -- Mary Karr
Writing is the geometry of the soul." -- Plato
Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape -- Kim Stanley
Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape" -- Kim Stanley Robinson
The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity. -- Eric Temple Bell
The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry." -- Louis de Bernieres
There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry. -- Voltaire
In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy. -- Nicholas of Cusa
No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. -- Benjamin Franklin
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light." -- Claude Debussy
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry. -- Ernest Hemingway
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark." -- John Jewel
If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope." -- Kristin Cast
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language." -- Marcus du Sautoy
There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres." -- Pythagoras
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry." -- Thomas Jefferson
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry." -- Gustave Flaubert
One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry." -- Margaret Wertheim
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry." -- Martin Gardner
For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls,The learned hold, are animals;So horses they affirm to beMere engines made by geometry" -- Samuel Butler
People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!" -- Shia LaBeouf
The ship's lines were an elegant array of pure geometry, essentially nothing more than a series of cubes suspended within a curved plane." -- Dan Lopez
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
In geometry, whenever we had to find the area of a circle, pi * radius squared, I would get really hungry for pie. Square pie." -- Dan Florence
It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry." -- E. W. Howe

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