#geometry

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. ↗

— Benoît B. Mandelbrot

#nature

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. ↗

— Steven Chu

#exciting #first #geometry #i #i remember

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

— Claude Debussy

#geometry #light #music #optics #sounds

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#decided #eager #foundation #geometry #i

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#geometry #heart #human #human heart #likes

Projective geometry is all geometry. ↗

— Arthur Cayley

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

— Comte de Lautreamont

#arithmetic #geometry #grandiose #known #luminous

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

— Erno Rubik

#always #been #forms #geometry #i

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#anyway #argue #bees #best #calculate

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

— John Jewel

#dark #geometry #human #human knowledge #knowledge