Geometric Quotes

#1. I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric diagrams and clear memories of hating them.

Paul Lockhart

#2. It snowed right before Jack stopped talking to Hazel, fluffy white flakes big enough to show their crystal architecture, like perfect geometric poems.

Anne Ursu

#3. 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

#4. Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define.

Giuseppe Peano

#5. The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism.

Alfred H. Barr Jr.

#6. Viewed as a geometric figure, the ant's path is irregular, complex, and hard to describe.

Herbert A. Simon

#7. It was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself.

Laura Hillenbrand

#8. Chemists did it in their tubes and doctors did it with patience, but only a techie would do it in geometric progression.

Greg Bear

#9. I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice.

Jenny Holzer

#10. A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of the word, it is mechanical, since it moves. It's a drawing; it's a mechanical reality.

Marcel Duchamp

#11. Nature itself rests on an internal foundation of archetypal principles symbolized by numbers, shapes, and their arithmetic and geometric relationships.

Michael S. Schneider

#12. Basic geometric shapes communicate universal qualities common to all cultures. Practical design integrates them appropriately.

Maggie Macnab

#13. Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse had signed a lease on a five-room apartment in a geometric white house on First Avenue when they received word, from a woman named Mrs. Cortez, that a four-room apartment in the Bramford had become available.

Ira Levin

#14. That's a geometric figure, that bird, he don't exist without an angle.

Donald E. Westlake

#15. Destruction is creation. Become as a little child. Language as space, a kind of mathematical notation, geometric locations in the lab of memory. Reading. Maps. Codes, substitutions, the secret names of things. The glorious inrush of a word. The joy of chatter. Every color's wavelength, by number.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#16. Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

Anish Kapoor

#17. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

Matthew Fox

#18. The feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know

Henri Poincare

#19. If one were to refuse to have direct, geometric, intuitive insights, if one were reduced to pure logic, which does not permit a choice among every thing that is exact, one would hardly think of many questions, and certain notions ... would escape us completely.

Henri Lebesgue

#20. Geometric shapes hold an energy pattern, and scientists did some experiments which say certain geometric shapes can affect matter around them. It's simply because when a human looks at a shape, they instantly receive energy from their brain.

Tom DeLonge

#21. They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.

Donald Judd

#22. In life you have to avoid three geometric figures - vicious circles, love triangles and square minds

Mario Benedetti

#23. To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was "system," and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was "industry", indecision when right was "caution", and blind stubbornness when wrong, "determination.

Isaac Asimov

#24. Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.

Omar Khayyam

#25. All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

Ellsworth Kelly

#26. I had, over the years, collected things, small things, as people do, and I had put them all together and showed them in what became a building in the form of the Geometric Mouse.

Claes Oldenburg

#27. The design is a really flat primary color with all sorts of abstract geometric shapes, just implying something. And then you'd have your characters running from something with guns. It was very expressionistic.

Don Hertzfeldt

#28. Antarctic symphony has a geometric relationship to the landscape. It's saying that this landscape and the minimal kind of, you know I'm talking like seeing ice, is visually kind of eerily minimal.

DJ Spooky

#29. The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

Robert Rauschenberg

#30. Mathematical solutions are selected by the subliminal self on the basis of "mathematical beauty," of the harmony of numbers and forms, of geometric elegance.

Robert M. Pirsig

#31. She is angle. I am
curve. Together, we are geometric
sculpture, and we make perfect sense.

Ellen Hopkins

#32. My work is always very geometric.

Bibhu Mohapatra

#33. As you know, Bergson pointed out that there is no such thing as disorder but rather two sorts of order, geometric and living.

Jean Piaget

#34. All man's desired geometric progressions, if a high rate of growth is chosen, at last come to grief on a finite earth. And the social system for man on earth is fair enough, eventually, that almost all massive cheating ends in disgrace.

Charlie Munger

#35. In a way, composing on the melodic level is an expression of a melodic truth, almost like a geometric truth. If it has clarity, other people will recognize it. There's no way of isolating it in a gallery on a white wall and saying, "This is a work of art. This is a mathematical proof."

Eyvind Kang

#36. Modern man lives more and more in a preponderantly geometric order. All human creation mechanical or industrial is dependent upon geometric intentions.

Fernand Leger

#37. To the untrained (human) eye, Thalassinia looks like an expanse of coral reefs and volcanic formations. There are no straight lines or geometric shapes to give away the fact that the structures are actually mermade. (Get it? Mermade. Like mermaid, but ... oh, never mind.)

Tera Lynn Childs

#38. In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

Martin Gardner

#39. Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.

Stephen M. Barr

#40. The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

Andre Maurois

#41. Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

Jean Dieudonne

#42. During the late afternoon and early evening there is a specific dimension that interconnects with our physical world. This particular dimension can be visualized as series of horizontally shaped geometric planes that extent out into infinity.

Frederick Lenz

#43. For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

Vidal Sassoon

#44. I got to draw shapes. I really like to draw funky, geometric shapes. And I got to use just different fonts and make a joke of how feminine it was, but it didn't even have people in it. To me, it was so exciting and interesting to do that for a while.

David Rees

#45. If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic musical.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#46. In 1929 the discovery of the wonders of the geometric series struck Wall Street with a force comparable to the invention of the wheel.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#47. New York ... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky, a real Metropolis from which man is absent by his very accumulation.

Roland Barthes

#48. We have a company, Geometric Software, which is into engineering services software. We have a company called Nature's Basket, which is into gourmet retailing. Both are specialized companies.

Adi Godrej

#49. predecessor of Isaac Newton at Cambridge University, maintained that irrational numbers have no meaning independent of geometric lengths.

Morris Kline

#50. So it's not an architectural masterpiece. When Da5id and Hiro and the other hackers wrote The Black Sun, they didn't have enough money to hire architects or designers, so they just went in for simple geometric shapes. The avatars milling around the entrance don't seem to care.

Neal Stephenson

#51. Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.

Peter Blegvad

#52. The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around.

Gaylord Nelson

#53. He simply went from vertical to horizontal in one marvelous geometric sweep.

Terry Pratchett

#54. ...rich geometric experiences are the most important factor in the development of children's spatial thinking and reasoning.

John A. Van De Walle

#55. As far as I could tell, the quickest way to a geeky guy's heart usually involved geometric shapes.

Angela N. Blount

#56. About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on ... One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.

Lucio Russo

#57. The five elements are energies, not things. In Hinduism, they are known as the five tattvas. Psychic people can see them and their geometric forms.

Stefan Emunds

#58. But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

William Wordsworth

#59. I don't think geometric art is ... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity.

Donald Judd

#60. I guess a sock is also a geometric shape - technically - but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?

Stephen King

#61. It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.

Thomas Reid

#62. In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.

John Berger

#63. My forms are geometric, but they don't interact in a geometric sense. They're just forms that exist everywhere, even if you don't see them.

Ellsworth Kelly

#64. There is a deep connection between Bernoulli's dictum and John Kelly's 1956 publication. It turns out that Kelly's prescription can be restated as this simple rule: When faced with a choice of wagers or investments, choose the one with the highest geometric means of outcomes.

William Poundstone

#65. I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves.

Richard Lamm

#66. Algebras are geometric facts which are proved.

Omar Khayyam

#67. I always found it satisfying that gravity was described by Einstein's geometric theory of general relativity.

Antony Garrett Lisi