Euclid Quotes

#1. Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

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#2. Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

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#3. The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.

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#4. That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.

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#5. What has been affirmed without proof can also be denied without proof."-

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#6. 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.

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#7. Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome.

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#8. And the whole is greater than the part.

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#9. Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.

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#10. A line is length without breadth.

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#11. 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.

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#12. There is no Royal Road to Geometry.

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#13. A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.

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