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• The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Travel, Cities, Two

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

  James Joseph Sylvester

  Study, Euclid, Made

  James Joseph Sylvester (1870). “The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter”, p.126

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• In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

  Christopher Wren

  Respect, Confusion, Confusing

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• There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a gossamer web. They seemed insubstantial when you first saw them, a string of squiggles. Yet to follow the delicate tensors as they contracted, as the superscripts paired with subscripts, collapsing mathematically into concrete classical entities - potential; mass; forces vectoring in a curved geometry - that was a sublime experience. The iron fist of the real, inside the velvet glove of airy mathematics.

  Gregory Benford

  Real, Math, Iron

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• 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.

  Twyla Tharp

  People, Inspired, Academic

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• We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately.

  Albert Einstein

  Distance, Math, Thinking

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

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Work, Math, Hands

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• Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

  John Jewel

  Philosophy, Dark, Astrology

  John Jewel (1848). “The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury”, p.323

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• 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

  Space, Long, Regard

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• Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.

  Eugene S. Ferguson

  Art, Creativity, Carpe Diem

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

  Wilfred Owen

  Philosophy, Law, Analysis

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.410, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Book, Writing, Science

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• There are two versions of math in the lives of many Americans: the strange and boring subject that they encountered in classrooms and an interesting set of ideas that is the math of the world, and is curiously different and surprisingly engaging. Our task is to introduce this second version to today's students, get them excited about math, and prepare them for the future.

  Jo Boaler

  Education, Teacher, Math

  Jo Boaler (2015). “What's Math Got to Do with It?: How Teachers and Parents Can Transform Mathematics Learning and Inspire Success”, p.5, Penguin

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

  Lord Acton

  Atheism, Sin, Liable

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• The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy.

  J. G. Ballard

  Time, Greatest Movie, Events

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• . . . 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

  Math, Mind, World

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• God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Long, Looks

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• Geometry is the most complete science.

  David Hilbert

  Science

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• There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

  Voltaire

  Life, Morality

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

  Shia LaBeouf

  Dream, Swimming, Class

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• In reality the universe has no geometry.

  Kedar Joshi

  Reality, Space, Universe

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• Or maybe it is only that we are so habitually inattentive that when some rare but simple geometry grabs us by the shoulders and shakes us into consciousness, we call our response sacred.

  Charles Frazier

  Simple, Sacred, Consciousness

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.97, Random House

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

  Charles Olson

  Spatial, Complexes, Occasions

  Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.148, Univ of California Press

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• The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

  Plato

  Plato, Math, Branches

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.413, Xist Publishing

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• 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.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Ease, Sacred

  "Talk Asia" with Sarah Sidner, edition.cnn.com. July 6, 2012.

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