Geometry Quotes

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the math...

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

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

The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is...

A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the...

The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, wil...

The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent o...

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the univer...

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, foll...

The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it...

the pattern appears so ethereally, that it is hard to remember that the shape is an attractor. It is...

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious tha...

The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. Th...

IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity.

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

The boundary is where points are slowest to escape the pull of the set. It is as if they are balance...

The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever ...

Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern.

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

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 wa...

Billions of years ago there were just blobs of protoplasm; now billions of years later here we are. ...

One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact ...

the brain does not own any direct copies of stuff in the world. There is no library of forms and ide...

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free ...

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

Speed is simply the rite that initiates us intoemptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to ...

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

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktago...

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