Quotes with geometry

  • 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.
  • Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
  • And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

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  • Bruce Lipton There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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  • Gustave Flaubert All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
    Gustave Flaubert
    French writer (1821 - 1880)
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  • Albrecht Durer And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
    Albrecht Durer
    German painter (1471 - 1528)
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  • Annie Dillard Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.
    Stephen Hawking: A Biography (2005) by Kristine Larsen
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
    The Fractal Geometry of Nature
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Cayley 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
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Arthur Cayley Projective geometry is all geometry.
    Arthur Cayley
    British mathematician (1821 - 1895)
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  • Bob Dylan The geometry of innocence flesh on the bone
    Causes Galileo's math book to get thrown
    At Delilah who sits worthlessly alone
    But the tears on her cheeks are from laughter
    Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
    Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 256
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot There is no single rule that governs the use of geometry. I don't think that one exists.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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