Euclid Quotes: top 39 famous quotes about Euclid

Euclid Quotes & Sayings

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If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live. — Mahatma Gandhi

I suppose I thought your mind would be full of dresses and dances."
"Well, it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid. — Leila Rasheed

Mal Blum's arrival on the indie scene gives us all hope for the future of smart music. — Melissa Ferrick

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. — Arthur Cayley

Can't do better until I know better! — Benjamin Radford

Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Everyone loves a girl who can rise to a crisis. — Allan Dare Pearce

Your job as an actor is to stay employed. — Benjamin Bratt

The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. — Euclid

I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way. — Carl Sandburg

A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone. — Euclid

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns. — Euclid

The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke. — John Allen Paulos

Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome. — Euclid

As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament. — Augustus De Morgan

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid. — Augustus De Morgan

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. — Thomas Jefferson

Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another. — Euclid

If you talk about people that lie, this Ted Cruz, this is the biggest liar I've ever seen. — Donald Trump

In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle. — Euclid

The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody! — Joseph John Thomson

Euclid for children is barbarous. — Oliver Heaviside

From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. — Saul Bellow

I don't get it. What's an Angry Pirate? — Juliana Stone

And the whole is greater than the part. — Euclid

There is no Royal Road to Geometry. — Euclid

A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser. — Euclid

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry. — James Joseph Sylvester

If the gospel is reduced because of our preferences or misunderstandings, we leave ourselves open to heresies and to attacking our brothers-in-arms. — Matt Chandler

A line is length without breadth. — Euclid

I am a Democrat. I have been one all of my life. — Jane Byrne

Excuse me? I'm alive too. — James Patterson

You ask me why I compare you to stars - it's simple - that's where your goddess has fled ... — John Geddes

A triangle with four points is what Euclid rides into hell. — Steve Martin

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry. — Euclid

What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof."- — Euclid

My friends ask me why I still live with my family, but I feel comfortable there. We've all been through so much together. — Shaun White

The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of. — Philip Reeve

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions. — E. T. Bell