“Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.”
Claude Debussy
“There are no sects in geometry”
Voltaire
“Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”
Gustave Flaubert
“Nobody untrained in geometry may enter my house”
Plato
“Most of them just don't want to take math and geometry and the other courses to get a degree. They want to learn to build boots and saddles and go home.”
Mike DeWitt
“I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry...But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe.”
“Projective geometry is all geometry.”
Arthur Cayley
