Quotes Tagged "geometry"

He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by the calculated chance of searching fire, even as he himself might be at any moment. Mathematics! Mathematics! Algebra! Geometry! When 1st and 3d Squads came diving and tumbling back over the tiny crest, Bell was content to throw himself prone, press his cheek to the earth, shut his eyes, and lie there. God, oh, God! Why am I here? Why am I here? After a moment's thought, he decided he better change it to: why are we here. That way, no agency of retribution could exact payment from him for being selfish.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.

But who can quantify the algebra of space, or weigh those worlds that swim each in its place? Who can outdo the dark? And what computer knows how beauty comes to birth - shell star and rose? -Technicians by Jean Kenward

The geometry of sky extends its angles. Look, beyond the hemisphere of pen and book. Technicians by Jean Kenward

What music is to the heart, mathematics is to the mind.

Mathematics is not just a subject of education system, it is the soul of education system.

To a scholar, mathematics is music.

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

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

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

There is no royal road to geometry.