Geometry Quotes

• Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Archetype

• I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Real
  • Certain
  • Drapes

• I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Song
  • Familiar
  • Balanced

• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Human
  • Conviction
  • Intellect

• Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.

  

  Euripides
  • Geometry
  • Joined
  • Resistless

• A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • Criticism
  • Morality
  • Geometry

• Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

  

  Xenocrates
  • Science
  • Philosophy
  • Handle

• That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Schools
  • Geometry
  • Naturall Science

• Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Things
  • Geometry
  • Origin

• Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Science
  • Territories
  • Projective

• Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.

  

  Tom DeLonge Angels & Airwaves
  • Brain
  • Shapes
  • Patterns

• I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Science

• Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.

  

  Christopher Wren
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Mathematical

• Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

  

  Plato
  • Geometry
  • Academy
  • Inscribed

• A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Sex
  • Implies
  • Locus

• Geometry existed before creation.

  

  Plato
  • Creation
  • Geometry
  • Existed

• Why waste words? Geometry existed before the Creation, is co-eternal with the mind of God, is God himself (what exists in God that is not God himself?): geometry provided God with a model for the Creation and was implanted into man, together with God's own likeness - and not merely conveyed to his mind through the eyes.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Creation
  • Geometry
  • Existed

• Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

  

  Euclid
  • Road
  • Geometry
  • Sire

• Everything is roughness, except for the circles. How many circles are there in nature? Very, very few. The straight lines. Very shapes are very, very smooth. But geometry had laid them aside because they were too complicated.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Nature
  • Complicated
  • Smooth

• Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Great
  • Geometry
  • Treasures

• Where there is matter, there is geometry.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Matter
  • Geometry

• Writing is the geometry of the soul.

  

  Plato
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Geometry

• Nevertheless, it remains conceivable that the measure relations of space in the infinitely small are not in accordance with the assumptions of our geometry Euclidean geometry, and, in fact, we should have to assume that they are not if, by doing so, we should ever be enabled to explain phenomena in a more simple way.

  

  Bernhard Riemann
  • Relations
  • Assumptions
  • Phemonema

• Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities, but some shapes in nature are so complicated that they are equally complicated at the big scale and come closer and closer and they don't become any less complicated.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Nature
  • Special
  • Complicated

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