18 quotes found
“His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to ...”
“In reality the universe has no geometry.”
“Speed is simply the rite that initiates us intoemptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to immobility, concealed beneath the very intensification of their mobility. Akin to the nostalgia f...”
“Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a production being made over something so simple is to make people doubt their own...”
“In the pentagram, the Pythagoreans found all proportions well-known in antiquity: arithmetic, geometric, harmonic, and also the well-known golden proportion, or the golden ratio. ... Probably owing...”
“Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth”
“I forget if it was the Mathematician of Alexandria who said that geometry is beauty laid bare or the Father of Relativity who made the claim for physics, Darger said. She is, in either case, ravish...”
“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.”
“The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will fit the facts better than others, and then the geometry which provides that particular map will...”
“The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and pure geometries are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world.”
“I guess a sock is also a geometric shapetechnicallybut I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?”
“Is everyone with one face called a Milo?""Oh no," Milo replied; "some are called Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things.""How terribly confusing," he cried. "Everything here is c...”
“Everybody at the party is a many sided polygon....Nonagon!”
“The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent of lecture rooms, or of any other detail of the physical world.”
“I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?”
