(17 quotes found)
“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
“Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.”
Claude Debussy
“Nobody untrained in geometry may enter my house”
Plato
“It's as complex a Web site as you'll find. I'm not aware of another site that builds the virtual geometry of a home.”
Mark Morton
“We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there”
Albert Einstein
“It's all very classic geometry. ... This courthouse is about craftsmanship and that should be communicated by the piece.”
Gordon Huether
“Yesterday's rally was based on a number of factors. There was some financial geometry in there as well. It was an options expiry day on the New York Mercantile with a rising market. That gave it a little more oomph than it needed. Now that oil's flowing, prices are coming back in line.”
Peter Gignoux
“I think it's really fascinating that geometry is so difficult. My guess is it's difficult because it focuses on proofs.”
Elizabeth Spelke
“One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.”
Robert M. Pirsig
