“ 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… Hermann Weyl
“ 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… Eric Temple Bell
“ [The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy. Albert Einstein
“ The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale. James Gleick
“ Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world. James Gleick
“ Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry... Thomas Jefferson
