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Quotes About Geometry

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
~ Claude Debussy
Treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in proper perspective so that each side of an object or a plane is directed towards a central point.
~ Paul Cezanne
I am present at the sowing of the seed of the world. With a geometry of sunbeams, the soul lays the foundations of nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.
~ Charles Olson
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
~ Paul Cezanne
Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.
~ Plato
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
~ John Jewel
I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law
~ Wilfred Owen
I like my thingshurried and haunted. Night teadarktime. Sacred geometry, secret geometrypetal-flame whisper: I am here, and you aren't.
~ Virginia Petrucci
this way, we've changed the geometry of the planet. Before we came along, the world was discontinuous. Oceans, deserts, and mountain ranges formed impenetrable barriers, breaking Earth into separate regions where populations could evolve independently, and then be isolated or merged by continental drift and climate change. Now we've created pathways around all those borders, and to some degree the planet is one continuous habitat. Some
~ David Grinspoon
My point is that the actual height of the CoG is only a concern when you are balancing at a stop or pushing the bike out of the garage. In motion, front-end geometry has a lot more to do with how the bike balances. And
~ David L. Hough
As Mrs. Moe explained how triangle ABC was congruent to triangle ABD, my mind kept wandering back to Mr. Bowman's smile. And his arms. And his sharply creased dark gray cotton pants. Mr. Bowman was congruent to the best-looking guy on any late-night cable drama.
~ David LaRochelle
I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.
~ Johannes Kepler
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God
~ Johannes Kepler
The impact of the acute angle of a triangle on a circle produces an effect no less powerful than the finger of God touching the finger of Adam in Michelangelo.
~ Wassily Kandinsky
Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.
~ Thomas Hobbes
God ever geometrizes.
~ Plato
God forever geometrizes.
~ Plato
God is a geometrician.
~ Plato
Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God...Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation.
~ Johannes Kepler
For God is like a skilfull Geometrician.
~ Thomas Browne
If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope.
~ P. C. Cast
Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.
~ Euripides
O, heart! How long will you search for perfection in schools? How long will you try to perfect philosophy, geometry and all its rules? Every thought which is no remembrance of God is an evil inspiration, Be modest before God! How long these evil thoughts? (Leave them to fools!)
~ Jami