Quotes on the topic: Geometry


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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.


I'd been doing projects outdoors for the public. I made pigeons eat geometry by putting bread out in rhomboids and triangles. I don't know if this activity made sense, but the work was available.


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.


A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?


The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.


It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.


Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.


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


All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.


Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.


What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.


There is no royal road to geometry.


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


Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.


The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.


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


Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.


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.


Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.


Projective geometry is all geometry.