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...

Maths is at only one remove from magic.

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.

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...

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

A circle has no end.

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

Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth

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

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

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...

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

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

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

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

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...

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...

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...