Quotes About Geometry

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

God Father (the Creator) geometrizes, God Mother (Nature) fractalizes.

A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese.

The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.

In any event, Socrates' proof of prenatal immortality is that one of Meno's uneducated slave boys actually comes up with the Pythagorean theorem without ever having studied geometry! Therefore, he must be remembering it. You recall that theorem: in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Huh? We can barely remember that from tenth grade, let alone from before we were born.

music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light

Apeirogon: a shape with a countably infinite number of sides.

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

Just as it was not necessary for Beethoven to know the science of the physical manufacture of the instruments in his orchestra in order for him to compose, it is not necessary for you to understand vortex based mathematics, fractal field theory, dodecahedrons, geometric solids, calculus, Fibonacci series, centripetal force, and quantum physics in order to become enlightened.

Sensing geometric relationships and correspondences reveals unutterably significant spiritual truths.

Fill paper as you please with triangles and squares...

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.

Any cube can be found on the lawn of the White House.

Although Mandelbrot made the most comprehensive geometric use of it, the return of scaling ideas to science in the 1960s and 1970s became an intellectual current that made itself felt simultaneously in many places.

This is still the legacy of Euclidean geometry, where space has three dimensions, a plane has two, a line has one, and a point has zero.

In fact, he argued, any coastline is—in a sense—infinitely long. In another sense, the answer depends on the length of your ruler.

In terms of aesthetic values, the new mathematics of fractal geometry brought hard science in tune with the peculiarly modern feeling for untamed, uncivilized, undomesticated nature.

I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the third.

One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.

Almost any group of three is going to form a triangle, with two points closer to one another.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.