Arthur Cayley Quotes

#1. So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions.

Anais Nin

#2. Projective geometry is all geometry.

Arthur Cayley

#3. I love you Contessa, Your madness is silent and your sanity makes a racket. Now is the time for madness.

C.D. Reiss

#4. Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

Arthur Cayley

#5. But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.

Arthur Cayley

#6. If he had the cleft tongue of a devil, or the snake hair of a Medusa, or the matted hair of a wolf-monster, Akhmed might understand. But Ramazan had two eyes, a nose, and a mouth, pairs of arms and legs and ears, hair greasy, but not slimy and certainly not slithering, and Akhmed did not understand.

Anthony Marra

#7. Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Andre Gide

#8. Finding out what you don't like is, paradoxically, as valuable as finding out what you do like.

Susan Jeffers

#9. Don't call me a Postmodern!

Wayne Rooney

#10. [M]ost of the people I have ever met who claim not to care about money already have more than they could ever need.

Gene Doucette

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

Arthur Cayley

#12. Isobel moved farther into the kitchen, not knowing whether to be relieved that her mother hadn't had an atomic meltdown, or mortified that she'd taken it upon herself to play head chef with the nearest thing Trenton High had to a Dark Lord.

Kelly Creagh

#13. I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans.

Mahatma Gandhi

#14. As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Arthur Cayley

#15. Man is not intellect only,' Guthrie said. 'Not until you reject all the claims of your body. Not until you have stamped out, little by little, all that is left of your soul.

Dorothy Dunnett

#16. Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

Arthur Cayley

#17. So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.

Arthur Cayley

#18. And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.

Arthur Cayley