Quotes About Euclidean Geometry

#1. 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

#2. 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

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

Sherry Thomas

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

Amy Dickinson

#8. All water is holy water.

Rajiv Joseph

#9. 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

#10. People who are interested with me have for sure gotten older over the years, for example, grandparents are coming up to me telling me they grew up watching me.

Andre Agassi

#11. Obviously, you check tht she's safe, she's clean, got all the fingers and toes, like that's going to help them through life. It'll help them walk, but you can't pull them out and check their IQ or anything.

Matthew Ashford

#12. Every word has its fragrance: there is a harmony and a disharmony of fragrances, and hence of words.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. 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

#14. The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Mark Twain

#15. But may not one sometimes make a mistake without being able to help it?' 'Yes. But so long as he is not after his own ends, he will never make a serious mistake.

George MacDonald

#16. Britain possesses no climate, only weather.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#17. Life is worth living because we find the ultimate joy of life through love.

Debasish Mridha

#18. I see some people with glasses here, I trust people with glasses, don't you? But if you're wearing your glasses like this ... "Get away from 'em!"

Jim Gaffigan

#19. Long ago I left heroics to the heroes

Peter Weiss

#20. What then is prayer? Prayer is nothing else than talking to God, conversing with God Himself.

Paul O'Sullivan

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

Michael A. Arnzen

#22. Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.

Guy Finley