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She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry. — Thomas Dolby

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God — Johannes Kepler

Let no one destitute of Geometry enter my doors. — Plato

There's no romance in geometry," Lindsey answered.
"Just you wait. — John Green

No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry. — Benjamin Franklin

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

The golden ratio is a reminder of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its potential future evolution. — Robert Lawlor

Where there is matter, there is geometry. — Johannes Kepler

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. — E.W. Howe

I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but geometry was the worst. — Nathan Kress

Simple shapes are inhuman. They fail to resonate with the way nature organizes itself or with the way human perception sees the world. — James Gleick

A fine image is geometry, modulated by the heart — Willy Ronis

The geometry of the place was all wrong. One could not be sure that the sea and the ground were horizontal, — H.P. Lovecraft

Possession of anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul. — John Kennedy Toole

Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently. — Benoit Mandelbrot

We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. — Stephen Hawking

Best Witchcraft is Geometry
To the magician's mind -
His ordinary acts are feats
To thinking of mankind. — Emily Dickinson

Only a fraction of the camera's possibilities interests me - the marvelous mixture of emotion and geometry, together in a single instant. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right — Ibn Khaldun

We must here follow the first course so as to be able to pass on later to generalisations which extend beyond the limits of Euclidean geometry. — Hermann Weyl

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense! — Comte De Lautreamont

The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. — Jean Cocteau

Projective geometry is all geometry. — Arthur Cayley

All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. — Gustave Flaubert

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry. — Mary Karr

Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them. — Rudolf Steiner

Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. — Norman Mailer

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

How can you study geometry and not believe in a god? A god of perfect points and planes, surrounded by angels and angles of all different degrees ... — Taylor Mali

[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy. — Albert Einstein

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed. — Liam Neeson

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry. — Hermann Weyl

The circle is the fundamental geometry of open human communication. — Harrison Owen

Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction. — Sheldon Lee Glashow

For as whipp'd tops and bandied balls,
The learned hold, are animals;
So horses they affirm to be
Mere engines made by geometry — Samuel Butler

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

Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough. — Sri Chinmoy

[As a young teenager] Galois read Legendre]'s geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn. — Eric Temple Bell

When the ancients discovered 'Phi', they were certain they had stumbled across God's building block for the world. — Dan Brown

One of the great sources of employment for people with Ph.D.s in geometry is the animation industry. — Margaret Wertheim

The ship's lines were an elegant array of pure geometry, essentially nothing more than a series of cubes suspended within a curved plane. — Dan Lopez

Maths is at only one remove from magic. — Neel Burton

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind. — Thomas Hobbes

On Plato's door, it says let no one enter who does not know geometry. On Love's door, it says let no one enter who does not know cry! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art. — Ellsworth Kelly

Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life. — Hermann Hesse

Music is geometry in time. — Arthur Honegger

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry ... — Thomas Jefferson

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape - technically - but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon? — Stephen King

Preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry). — Alan Watts

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

Geometry draws the soul towards truth. — Plato

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry. — John Rawls

I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry. — Ice-T

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch. — Plato

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

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out! — Archimedes

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It's abundantly obvious that one doesn't know the world around us in detail — James Gleick

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law. — Wilfred Owen

before the origin of things, geometry was coeternal with the Divine Mind — Johannes Kepler

I realized I was far more interested in the expansion of concentric rings than the geometry of perfect circles. — L.W. Montgomery

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry. — Voltaire

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time. — Antony Garrett Lisi

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

Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent. — Pythagoras

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres. — Pythagoras

Two possibilities present themselves for the analytical treatment of metrical geometry. — Hermann Weyl

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. — Robert M. Pirsig

There is no Royal Road to Geometry. — Euclid

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry. — John B. S. Haldane

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language. — Marcus Du Sautoy

Geometry is the rules of all mental investigation — Mikhail Lomonosov

Who thinks all Science, as all Virtue, vain; Who counts Geometry and numbers Toys ... — John Dryden

Geometry is deceptive; the hurricane alone is trustworthy. — Victor Hugo

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it — James Gleick

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

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. — Martin Gardner

Celestial mechanics is the origin of dynamical systems, linear algebra, topology, variational calculus and symplectic geometry. — Vladimir Arnold

For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I. — Michael A. Arnzen

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. — Federico Garcia Lorca

Everybody at the party is a many sided polygon ... Nonagon! — They Might Be Giants

IN THE MIND'S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity. — James Gleick

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. — Emile M. Cioran

Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God ... Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation ... — Johannes Kepler

This love triangle had reached new heights, and as much as Matt loved geometry, this was not the sort of triangle he wanted anything to do with. — Jessica Park

Mathematicians didn't invent infinity until 1877. So they thought it was impossible that Africans could be using fractal geometry. — Ron Eglash

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world. — Johannes Kepler

The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ...
A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves — Julian Coolidge

Eternity is a depth which no geometry can measure, no arithmetic calculate, no imagination conceive, no rhetoric describe. — Hannah More

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. — Steven Chu

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not. — Plato

You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong. — Paul Rand

Gravity is a response to geometry. — Albert Einstein

Wow. I'm twenty years old. Rene Descartes invented analytic geometry in his early twenties. Talk about pressure. — Anna Kay Akana

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped. — Amanda Hocking

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. — Claude Debussy

The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal. — Plato

There are no sects in geometry. — Voltaire

Geometry alone is not enough to portray human desires, expressions, aspirations, joys. We need more. — Akira Yoshizawa