Quotes About Shapes

Schlafi also proved that in five or more dimensions the only regular polytopes are the simplex, or generalized tetrahedron, the hypercube, or generalized cube, and the orthoplex, or generalized octahedron.

Interestingly, it is the play between imaginary and real numbers that effortlessly produces the beautiful complexity of fractals and chaos theory, models of the recursive shapes and processes we find all around us in nature.

The dodecagon is also made from six squares and six equilateral triangles fitted around a hexagon

The wonder of the world The beauty and the power, The shapes of things, Their colours, lights and shades, These I saw. Look ye also while life lasts.

We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos.—In fact, the world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities.

Even Caesar's fortune at one time was, but a grand presentiment. We know what a masquerade all development is, and what effective shapes may be disguised in helpless embryos.--In fact, the world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome dubious eggs called possibilities.

I've always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

The word "linga" means "the form." When creation began to happen, or when the unmanifest became manifest, the first form that it assumed was that of an ellipsoid, or a three-dimensional ellipse, which is what we call a linga. It started as an ellipsoid, and then took on many other shapes and forms. If you go into deep states of meditativeness, you will find that before a point of absolute dissolution, once again the energy takes on the form of a linga.

Psychologically time is seldom homogenous but rather is as full of shapes as space.

We waited for our periods with excitement! ...We were delighted by the different silky weaves, the various crotch-conforming shapes, and the promise they held: The future is coming.

It adds up, but I deem it all necessary, even the camera gear. I enjoy photographing the otherworldly colors and shapes presented in the convoluted depths of slot canyons and the prehistoric artwork preserved in their alcoves.

Well, Io is Mordor: Look up Part Three. There's a passage about 'rivers of molten rock that wound their way… until they cooled and lay like twisted dragon-shapes vomited from the tormented earth.' That's a perfect description: how did Tolkien know, a quarter century before anyone ever saw a picture of Io? Talk about Nature imitating Art.

Geometria este ?tiin?a care trage concluzii corecte din figuri incorecte

The invisible is more substantial than the visible; ?he future shapes the past; The new is more fundamental than the old.

from CHAOS?Trust the imagination - lines and shapes revealed - space and light instead of blackness. Silence being tentative, tender life of universe.

Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names.

A thousand fantasiesBegin to throng into my memory,Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire,And airy tongues that syllable men's namesOn sands and shores and desert wildernesses.

At night, the prison cells hold the darkness of a cave but for odd shapes here and there.

I, of course, admit that the conception of God has taken many shapes in the long-drawn course of human development, some of them degraded, all of them inadequate.

In sleep we are living corpses, we are the prey of an unknown power which seizes us in spite of ourselves, and shows itself in the oddest shapes.

conformations, or fit. Thus the rationale for structure-based design: to optimize the shapes of drug molecules. "Connecting the dots," Aldrich liked to call it in a heroic oversimplification that made some of the scientists at the tables wince. In effect, the goal is the very opposite of screening: building the molecules one wants rather than fishing for approximations in nature. The advantages of such drugs presumably

I never do the cute thing with animals; they are interesting shapes. I just use their profile. Because German shepherds are so easily recognizable, they would fall outside my purview.

When some pray, they lift heavy thoughts from the ground, only to drop them on it again; others send up their prayers in living shapes, this or that, the nearest likeness to each. All live things were thoughts to begin with, and are fit therefore to be used by those that think. When one says to the great Thinker:—'Here is one of thy thoughts: I am thinking it now!' that is a prayer—a word to the big heart from one of its own little hearts.

When, in some dreadful and ghastly dream, we reach the moment of greatest horror, it awakes us; thereby banishing all the hideous shapes that were born of the night. And life is a dream: when the moment of greatest horror compels us to break it off, the same thing happens.