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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
"Well, it's not. It's full of Socrates and Euclid. — Leila Rasheed
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
— Arthur Cayley
Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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
I buy books and tell myself that I am buying wisdom and at the end of my life, I own a house full of books.
— Ken Chen
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
People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.
— Ice Cube
Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.
— E. T. Bell
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
Vampire fans read the vampire not as death but as possibility
— Milly Williamson
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
Euclid for children is barbarous.
— Oliver Heaviside
A triangle with four points is what Euclid rides into hell.
— Steve Martin
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
A line is length without breadth.
— Euclid
Enlightened and endarkened. The ultimate.
— Tom Robbins
Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors.
— Steven Wright
I've practiced "alone" a lot, and I'm good at it.
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
How had his life become one a poet would be proud of?
— Ellie Macdonald
As president of Iraq, I shall strive to represent the diversity of a country that has too often in the past denied difference.
— Jalal Talabani
I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way.
— Carl Sandburg
that even the best tracker couldn't find the caster
— Christopher G. Nuttall