Quotes About Geometry

And I, I myself, am the centre that exists only because the geometry of the abyss demands it; I am the nothing around which all this spins, I exist so that it can spin, I am a centre that exists only because every circle has one. I, I myself, am the well in which the walls have fallen away to leave only viscous slime. I am the centre of everything surrounded by the great nothing.

And amid all this confusion I, what's truly I, am the centre that exists only in the geometry of the abyss: I'm the nothing around which everything spins, existing only so that it can spin, being a centre only because every circle has one. I, what's truly I, am a well without walls but with the walls' viscosity, the centre of everything with nothing around it.

Everything is composed of small particles of itself and they are flying around in concentric circles and arcs and segments and innumerable other geometrical figures too numerous to mention collectively, never standing still or resting but spinning away and darting hither and thither and back again, all the time on the go. These diminutive gentlemen are called atoms. Do you follow me intelligently?

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives: different footwork drills, body positions, angles and geometry. All that stuff is helpful, and so when I do other sports, I can see things, because once you know one sport, then the other sport becomes more clear.

Golf is basically about geometry and your ability to gauge how things are, the terrain, the distances, and exerting the right amount of swing and force.

Cuando Erdosain salió, la Coja le envolvió en una mirada singular, mirada de abanico que corta con una oblicua el cuerpo de un hombre de pies a cabeza, recogiendo en tangente toda la geometría interior de su vida.

On the front flap, the reader was informed that the Testamento geometrico was really three books, 'each independent, but functionally correlated by the sweep of the whole,' and then it said 'this work representing the final distillation of Dieste's reflections and research on Space, the notion of which is involved in any methodical discussion of the fundamentals of Geometry.

La pasión es geometría. Rombos, cilindros, ángulos latidores. La pasión es geometría que cae al abismo, observada desde el fondo del abismo.

to hang a geometry book by strings on the balcony of their apartment so that the wind could "go through the book, choose its own problems, turn and tear out the pages.

Leave the book alone, pretend it doesn't exist, forget about it, said Amalfitano, you've never been interested in geometry.

Allí, el personaje dice ay o empalidece. Como si estuviera dentro de un caleidoscopio y viera el ojo que lo mira. Colores que se ordenan en una geometría ajena a todo lo que tú estás dispuesto a aceptar como bueno.

A man was lying in the middle of the room, in a circle drawn on the ground with a piece of plaster from the wall, almost naked, his clothes having fallen into tatters. He was drawing very precise geometrical lines in the circle and appeared as absorbed in solving his problem as Archimedes when he was killed by one of Marcellus' soldiers.

From apples to black holes, the shape of a torus is a recurring pattern of creation in nature.

a pleasing geometric pattern maximising firegrid interceptions,

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

Quilters know all the angles.

There must be some definite cause why, whenever snow begins to fall, its initial formation invariably displays the shape of a six-cornered starlet. For if it happens by chance, why do they not fall just as well with five corners or with seven? . . . Who carved the nucleus, before it fell, into six horns of ice? —From "On the Six-Cornered Snowflake," by Johannes Kepler, 1610

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Hagia Sophia successfully marries the old Greek science of theoretical geometry to Roman skills of practical engineering

No hay en esta idea-forma del cuadrado nada personal ni evolutivo. Escapa, por emplear nuestro lenguaje moderno, de las variaciones subjetivas. El cuadrado de Pedro no difiere en nada del cuadrado de Pablo o de Diego. Única y objetiva, esta idea-forma es la misma para todos. Frente a millones de cosas cuadradas —existentes, desaparecidas o por venir—, existe una sola idea-forma de cuadrado y solo una.

Viriconium, the Pastel City; a little cryptic, a little proud, a little mad. Its histories, as forgotten as his own, made of the air a sort of amber, an entrapment; the geometry of its avenues was a wry message from one survivor to another: and its present, like his own, was but an implication of its past - a dream, a prediction, a brief possibility to be endured.

In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Well, the fifth dimension's a tesseract.