Geometry Quotes

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

The only royal road to elementary geometry is ingenuity.

Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

Geometry is the rules of all mental investigation

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).

Projective geometry is all geometry.

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

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.

Best Witchcraft is Geometry To the magician's mind - His ordinary acts are feats To thinking of mankind.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more.

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.

My old geometry teacher called me and he was like yo man you need to start wearing a shirt. You're ruining my marriage.

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

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

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

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

We must... maintain that mathematical geometry is not a science of space insofar as we understand by space a visual structure that can be filled with objects - it is a pure theory of manifolds.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

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

In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law

A fine image is geometry, modulated by the heart

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

In reality the universe has no geometry.

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

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences.

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities.

In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense 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.

I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst.