Best Geometry Quotes

#1. This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed to have both aesthetic and mystic significance. That the Egyptians knew of it and used it seems certain.

John Pile

#2. Straight lines evidently belonged only to geometry, not to nature and life.

Hermann Hesse

#3. Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.

Pythagoras

#4. People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream!

Shia Labeouf

#5. For authors, the shortest distance between two points is a straight line only if you are writing the letter I.

Michael A. Arnzen

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

Rudolf Steiner

#7. Andrew's kissing Amanda again, her back pinned against the door frame, his hands working through a geometry problem where the goal is to find the point of intersection where two legs bisect. People would like math so much more if it involved real life like that.

Julia Kent

#8. And I cherish more than anything else the Analogies, my most trustworthy masters. They know all the secrets of Nature, and they ought to be least neglected in Geometry.

Johannes Kepler

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

Plato

#10. A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

George Iles

#11. Geometry is a Deductive Science.

John Stuart Mill

#12. Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.

Felix Klein

#13. Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.

Paul Bloom

#14. And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

Albrecht Durer

#15. Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

Johannes Kepler

#16. I hope you theorists know what you're doing.' 'I can assure you that we don't. The geometry is still beyond us. All I learnt in the void was that our best guess so far is certainly wrong.

Greg Egan

#17. Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art.

Julian Coolidge

#18. Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is important, but an education is also about exploring new things
discovering what makes you come alive, and then being your best at whatever you choose

Michelle Obama

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

Emily Dickinson

#20. A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

Lewis Thomas

#21. A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

Marya Mannes

#22. There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

Voltaire

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

Euclid

#24. People joke, in our field, about Pythagoras and his religious cult based on perfect geometry and other abstract mathematical forms, but if we are going to have religion at all then a religion of mathematics seems ideal, because if God exists then what is He but a mathematician?

Matt Haig

#25. While fractal geometry is often used in high-tech science, its patterns are surprisingly common in traditional African designs.

Ron Eglash

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

Albert Einstein

#27. In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

Leonhard Euler

#28. There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.

Anya Kamenetz

#29. [Professor Bragg asserts that] In sodium chloride there appear to be no molecules represented by NaCl. The equality in number of sodium and chlorine atoms is arrived at by a chess-board pattern of these atoms; it is a result of geometry and not of a pairing-off of the atoms.

Henry Edward Armstrong

#30. To the eye a shot is only geometry and yardage and wind, but to a still-beating heart pulling a trigger on another living body and watching it fall is to be avoided, it does not give you a good feeling. If you aren't a psychopath or a male.

Brian McGreevy

#31. Seriously, you don't have to know English. It'd be nice, a nice little plus. We don't want miracles. You don't have to know the country's language. But just some shapes, that's all. A square. A little geometry.

David Spade

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

Euclid

#33. The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and 'pure geometries' are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world.

G.H. Hardy

#34. I was the girl in the background, the just-friend, or - worse - the friend of a just-friend, the you-sit-next-to-her-in-geometry-but-can't-remember-her-name girl. It would have been better if some middle-aged collector of Star Wars action figures had found me in that snowbank.

Rick Yancey

#35. 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

#36. My old geometry teacher called me and he was like yo man you need to start wearing a shirt. You're ruining my marriage.

Drew Chadwick

#37. Music is geometry in time.

Arthur Honegger

#38. The Creator, the fountain of all wisdom, the approver of perpetual order, the eternal and superessential spring of geometry and harmonics.

Johannes Kepler

#39. Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

Plato

#40. Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.

Johannes Kepler

#41. You might ask why we cannot teach physics by just giving the basic laws on page one and then showing how they work in all possible circumstances, as we do in Euclidean geometry, where we state the axioms and then make all sorts of deductions. (So,

Richard Feynman

#42. Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

Gustave Flaubert