Geometry Quotes - Page 6

• Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

  William Fogg Osgood

  Branches, Physics

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• I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Science, Numbers, Nomenclature

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• Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.

  Felix Klein

  Elements, Calculus, Explanation

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• Fashion is not just about what we wear, but...fashion is also a business. It is an art, it's a career that involves science, engineering, accounting and so much more. People can learn about the math behind Charles James' designs, and think, 'Maybe I should pay closer attention to geometry this semester'

  Michelle Obama

  Fashion, Art, Math

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• There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Wall, Real

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2009). “The Dispossessed”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Thinking, Fool

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• A proposition of geometry does not compete with life; and a proposition of geometry is a fair and luminous parallel for a work of art. Both are reasonable, both untrue to the crude fact; both inhere in nature, neither represents it.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Doe, Facts

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.195, Cooper Square Press

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• 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

  Math, My Favorite, Grades

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• There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

  James May

  Spiritual, Shapes, Legos

  "James May's Lego adventure". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2009.

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• John Michell's The Dimensions of Paradise is inarguably among the most important Gnostic transmissions of recent generations. With his candid, uncomplicated style, John has made widely available the visions, the laws, and the numbers held within pure geometry and which integrate earth and sky, movement and form, cosmos and mankind.

  Robert Lawlor

  Law, Sky, Numbers

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• Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art.

  Julian Coolidge

  Art, Science, Consistency

  Julian Lowell Coolidge (2004). “A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Georges Vantongerloo

  Art, Expression, Needs

  Georges Vantongerloo (1948). “Paintings, sculptures, reflections”

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• There is (gentle reader) nothing (the works of God only set apart) which so much beautifies and adorns the soul and mind of man as does knowledge of the good arts and sciences . Many arts there are which beautify the mind of man; but of all none do more garnish and beautify it than those arts which are called mathematical , unto the knowledge of which no man can attain, without perfect knowledge and instruction of the principles, grounds, and Elements of Geometry.

  John Dee

  Art, Men, Perfect

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• So if the worth of the arts were measured by the matter with which they deal, this art-which some call astronomy, others astrology, and many of the ancients the consummation of mathematics-would be by far the most outstanding. This art which is as it were the head of all the liberal arts and the one most worthy of a free man leans upon nearly all the other branches of mathe matics. Arithmetic, geometry, optics, geodesy, mechanics, and whatever others, all offer themselves in its service.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Art, Men, Astrology

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• Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art.

  Voltaire

  Art, Science, Noble

  Voltaire (1824). “A philosophical dictionary: from the French”, p.110

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• Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

  Madame de Stael

  Real, Effort, Attention

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• Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not just geometry's little corner of it. Pi occupies a key place in trigonometry too. It is intimately related to e, and to imaginary numbers. Pi even shows up in the mathematics of probability

  Robert Kanigel

  School, Keys, Numbers

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• That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Mother, School, Science

  Thomas Hobbes (2015). “Leviathan”, p.627, eKitap Projesi

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• We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry and lifeless science, or sink into that of sensation. Between these extremes is the equator of life, of thought, or spirit, or poetry,--a narrow belt.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Poetry, May

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.480, Library of America

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

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Math, Newton, Defying

  Nicholas Murray Butler (1895). “What Knowledge is of Most Worth? ...”

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• Common to the two geometries is only the general property of one-to-one correspondence, and the rule that this correspondence determines straight lines as shortest lines as well as their relations of intersection.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Two, Lines, Common

  Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Simple, Small Numbers, Principles

  David Hilbert (1910). “The Foundations of Geometry”

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• I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Soul, Foundation

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1969). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VII: 1838-1842”, p.413, Harvard University Press

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• You must follow me carefully. I shall have to controvert one or two ideas that are almost universally accepted. The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.

  H. G. Wells

  School, Ideas, Two

  H. G. Wells “The Works of Wells”, Lulu.com

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• My origami creations, in accordance with the laws of nature, require the use of geometry, science, and physics. They also encompass religion, philosophy, and biochemistry. Overall, I want you to discover the joy of creation by your own handthe possibility of creation from paper is infinite.

  Akira Yoshizawa

  Philosophy, Law, Joy

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