#geometry

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. ↗

— Steven Chu

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

— James Joseph Sylvester

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The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty. ↗

— D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

#beauty

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

— Liam Neeson

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It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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Geometry is not true, it is advantageous. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#geometry #true

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

— Pythagoras

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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

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I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#available #been #bread #doing #eat

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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