Quotes About Ellipse

An ellipse of pale rose sand lines the inside of a river bend of such beauty, you could set yourself on fire with the rapture of that curve. In it lies a kind of music in stone that might cure all emptiness.

So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.

Philosophy of religion is involved in a polarity; like an ellipse it revolves around two foci: philosophy and religion.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

photography is an ellipse of language and a condensation of an 'ineffable' society...

an elipse is an elongated circle

If you think it is hard to get humans to follow traffic laws, imagine convincing an asteroid to move along an ellipse.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other.

Mankind is not a circle with a single centre but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

Man is not a circle with a single centre; he is an ellipse with a double focus. Facts form one of these, and ideas the other.

Elliptical orbits. Langdon recalled that much of Galileo's legal trouble had begun when he described planetary motion as elliptical. The Vatican exalted the perfection of the circle and insisted heavenly motion must be only circular. Galileo's Illuminati, however, saw perfection in the ellipse as well, revering the mathematical duality of its twin foci. The Illuminati's ellipse was prominent even today in modern Masonic tracing boards and footing inlays.

The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci.