Top Geometry Quotes

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most...

The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the Copernicus of Geometry [as did Clifford], for geometry is o...

Geometry Definition

(n.) That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.

(n.) A treatise on this science.

Maths is at only one remove from magic.

A circle has no end.

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world.

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more than three or four cells away from a blood vessel. Yet the vessels and blood take up little spa...

The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale.

[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

The pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is not just any trajectory of a dynamical system. It is the trajectory toward which all other trajecto...

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Of all the possible pathways of disorder, nature favors just a few.

They say the silence is the language of God, but so is music. This is why we dance, we become loud in our silence.

The brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ideas against which to compare the images of perception. Information is stored in a plastic way, allowi...

One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact do not touch everywhere. The bumpiness at all scales prevents that. Even in rock under enormous pres...

sacred knowledge of the cosmos seems to be hidden within our souls and is shown within our artwork and creative expressions.

The little Hexagon meditated on this a while and then said to me; But you have been teaching me to raise numbers to the third power: I suppose three-to-the-third must mean something in Geometry; what...

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in whi...

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