Euclid Quotes

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Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

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.

Euclid for children is barbarous.

Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.

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

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament.

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.

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

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.

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.

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.

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers.

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

Abraham Lincoln had great clarity of mind and expression, and he worked to make it clearer -reading Euclid in his early 30s to train his mind.

A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.