#geometry

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline. ↗

— Alain Badiou

#communism #euclid #geometry #mao #maoism

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. ↗

— Steven Chu

#exciting #first #geometry #i #i remember

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#everything #geometry #invents #may #perfectly

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

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

— Erno Rubik

#always #been #forms #geometry #i

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

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#call #ease #everything #familiar #feel

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

#added #arithmetic #awed #crystals #even