#geometry

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

— Pythagoras

#humming #music #spheres #strings

People were going to geometry class and I was swimming through vats of chili on 'Even Stevens.' It was like a dream! ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#class #dream #even #geometry #going

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 intuition. Calling into question the obvious by insisting that it be 'rigorously proved' ... is to say to a student 'Your feelings and ideas are suspect. You need to think and speak our way. ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#intuition #math #mathematics #art

In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each other, has never been and never will be, nor is it now, what is known as a straight line, never, never, to put it strongly and emphatically in response to any doubts, to silence them once and for all. ↗

— José Saramago

#art

Gosta da música, que é a mesma coisa que ouvir geometria ↗

— Afonso Cruz

#math #music #music

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. ↗

— Steven Chu

#exciting #first #geometry #i #i remember

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

— James Joseph Sylvester

#euclid #geometry #hater #made #me

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

— Liam Neeson

#enjoyed #geometry #i #maths #slow

We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#architectural #back #beautifully #bone #cut