Euclidean Quotes

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

Marshall McLuhan

#2. 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

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

Michael A. Arnzen

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

Barack Obama

#5. 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

#6. [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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Aristotle.

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

Lily Koppel

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Sherry Thomas

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Richard Le Gallienne

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

Tony Bates

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

Ellen DeGeneres

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

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

Jeanette Winterson