#geometry

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

— Louis de Bernieres

#geometry #heart #human #human heart #likes

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#poetry #precise #thing

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

— Comte de Lautreamont

#arithmetic #geometry #grandiose #known #luminous

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

#enjoyed #geometry #i #maths #slow

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

— Wilfred Owen

#chemical #conclusion #find #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

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

#cannot #coming #conviction #demonstrated #geometry

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

— John Jewel

#dark #geometry #human #human knowledge #knowledge

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. ↗

— James Jones

#bell #death #fear #geometry #machine-guns