Geometry Quotes

• Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

  Johannes Kepler

  World, Mathematics, Archetype

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  There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

  Pythagoras

  Science, Spheres, Guitar Strings

  Quoted in Aristotle Metaphysics.

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• Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

  Plato

  Philosophy, Math, Soul

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.7552, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Where there is matter, there is geometry.

  Johannes Kepler

  Math, Science, Matter

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• Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.

  Plato

  Eye, Soul

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• I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

  Antony Garrett Lisi

  Beautiful, Thinking, Space

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• Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

  Ibn Khaldun

  Fall, Math, Errors

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• Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

  Pythagoras

  Math

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

  Voltaire

  Life, Morality

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• Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

  Stephen Hawking

  Bored, Physics, Boring

  "Stephen Hawking: A Biography". Book by Kristine Larsen, 2005.

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• Geometry is the foundation of all painting.

  Albrecht Durer

  Teaching, Math, Foundation

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• Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

  George Polya

  Education, Math, Figures

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• 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.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Attitude, Order, Discipline

  Henri Cartier-Bresson, Michael L. Sand (1999). “The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers”

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• Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words;
  geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.

  Sophie Germain

  Algebra

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• Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

  Plato

  Soul, Draws

  Plato (2001). “Plato's Republic: The Theatre of the Mind”, p.273, Agora Publications, Inc.

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

  Plato

  Difficult, Prove, Subjects

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• 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

  Math, Circles, Doe

  Isaac Newton (1966). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World: The motion of bodies”, p.17, Univ of California Press

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• The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

  Louis de Bernieres

  Heart, Littles, Likes

  Louis de Bernieres (2012). “Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel”, p.256, Vintage

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• The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.

  Plato

  Plato, Knowledge, Math

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• 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.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Nature, Lying, Science

  "Benoît Mandelbrot obituary' by Nigel Lesmoir-Gordon, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2010.

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• The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Education, Math

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• 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

  Mind, Creation, Models

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• Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

  Claude Debussy

  Music, Beauty, Art

  "Greatness: Who Makes History and Why". Book by Dean Keith Simonton, May 20, 1994.

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• Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Poetry, Literature, May

  Letter to Madame Louise Colet, August 14, 1853.

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