#geometric

I'd paint long strips of canvas and abandon them on the beach, or put bread out in geometric patterns for the pigeons downtown. I wanted people to find something nice and intriguing to puzzle over. Then I'd go back to see if the things were still there, or if anyone would notice. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#anyone #back #beach #bread #canvas

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

#arithmetical #concentration #effect #geometrical #growth

Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#doubling #every #geometrical #goes #increases

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#effectiveness #geometric #increases #interruptions #progression

The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#chance #could #end #geometric #get

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#increases #population #ratio #unchecked

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#art form #been #before #change #color

Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement. ↗

— Derek Harold Richard Barton

#many #preferred #requirement #states #transition

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. ↗

— Martin Gardner

#between #difference #geometrical #geometry #nothing

The issues are by some geometric number - 100 or 200 or 500 - times more complicated today than we appreciated them to be when Franklin Roosevelt was around. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#around #complicated #franklin #franklin roosevelt #geometric