Quotes about Geometry

The English philosopher and geometer, Keith Critchlow, brings his own light to the same point: "The human mind takes apart with its analytic habits of reasoning but the human heart puts things together because it loves them . . ."18

Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy.

Kepler's second law: A planet sweeps out equal areas in equal times. It takes as long to travel from B to A as from F to E as from D to C; and the shaded areas BSA, FSE and DSC are all equal.

Geometry existed before the Creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation Ãƒ¢Ã¢'¬Ã‚¦ Geometry is God Himself." In

The fifth regular solid must then, they thought, correspond to some fifth element that could only be the substance of the heavenly bodies.

The question: 'is the Euclidean geometry true?' has no significance for Poincaré, for these is no such thing as one geometry being more true than another.

Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.

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