“ The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape. ”
- Federico Garcia Lorca- Copy
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“ The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. ”
- Arthur Cayley- Copy
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“ The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry. ”
- Eric Temple Bell- Copy
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“ There are some who, because the point is the limit and extreme of the line, the line of the plane, and the plane of the solid, think there must be real things of this sort. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
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“ Meton: With the straight ruler I set to work to make the circle four-cornered. ”
- Aristophanes- Copy
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“ Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light. ”
- Claude Debussy- Copy
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“ It were good to know the geometrical content, figure and situation of all the lands of a kingdom, especially according to its most natural bounds. ”
- William Petty- Copy
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“ The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in geometrical than in arithmetical proportion. ”
- Friedrich List- Copy
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“ It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry. ”
- Edward W. Howe- Copy
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“ Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry. ”
- Stephen Hawking- Copy
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“ Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. ”
- Thomas Robert Malthus- Copy
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“ All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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“ When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity. ”
- Walter Cronkite- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a man so concentrates his attention — on a landscape, a poem, a geometrical problem, an idol, or the True God — that he completely forgets his own ego and desires, he is praying… ”
- W. H. Auden- Copy
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“ In terms of the game theory, we might say the universe is so constituted as to maximize play. The best games are not those in which all goes smoothly and steadily toward a certain conclusion, but those in which the outcome is always in doubt. Similarly, the geometry of life is designed to keep us at the point of maximum tension between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos… ”
- George Leonard- Copy
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