Euclidean Quotes

#1. 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

#2. The victory over Euclidean space was not achieved by isolated individuals, but by a field of young rebels opposed to all absolutes.

Marshall McLuhan

#3. I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity

Grant Morrison

#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. We find in the history of ideas mutations which do not seem to correspond to any obvious need, and at first sight appear as mere playful whimsies such as Apollonius' work on conic sections, or the non-Euclidean geometries, whose practical value became apparent only later.

Arthur Koestler

#6. 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

#7. The concept of congruence in Euclidean geometry is not exactly the same as that in non-Euclidean geometry ... Congruent means in Euclidean geometry the same as determining parallelism, a meaning which it does not have in non-Euclidean geometry.

Hans Reichenbach

#8. 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

#9. She wanted to run her hands over him as he whispered the impassioned corollaries of non-Euclidean geometry.

Sherry Thomas

#10. It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

#11. [The Euclidean algorithm is] the granddaddy of all algorithms, because it is the oldest nontrivial algorithm that has survived to the present day.

Donald Knuth

#12. The differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and cannot lead to an epistemological priority of Euclidean geometry, in contrast to the views of certain authors.

Hans Reichenbach

#13. Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her.

Ellie Goulding

#15. I didn't just see fireworks, I felt them. I felt like I'd eaten a million lightning bugs when I was with him. He made my soul brighter, and that's all you can ask for when you're in love.

Viola Shipman

#16. If someone ever says you're weird, say thank you.

Ellen DeGeneres

#17. When you set a goal, it's a personal thing, and that goal should be very big, hairy and audacious.

Tony Bates

#18. A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.

Richard Le Gallienne

#19. 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

#20. I'm not worried about what part of their life they needed to massage in order to achieve something that I get to experience as transcendent. Because that's the point of literature, I think: to connect.

John D'Agata

#21. Evil" is an inverted anagram of "live." As we live our life, learn to tame our own private demons and conquer evil with a good, pure, humble, courageous, patient heart.

Angelica Hopes

#22. Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.

Lily Koppel

#23. Where your talents and the needs of the world cross; there lies your vocation.

Aristotle.

#24. THE NAME OF THE WIND marks the debut of a writer we would all do well to watch. Patrick Rothfuss has real talent, and his tale of Kvothe is deep and intricate and wondrous.

Terry Brooks

#25. There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem ... Change depends on our actions.

Barack Obama

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

Michael A. Arnzen