#geometry

Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line. ↗

— Benoît B. Mandelbrot

#nature

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember. ↗

— Steven Chu

#exciting #first #geometry #i #i remember

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

— Claude Debussy

#geometry #light #music #optics #sounds

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#decided #eager #foundation #geometry #i

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. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#convince #difficult #encounter #geometry #hard

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary. ↗

— William Adams

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The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#geometry #heart #human #human heart #likes

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#poetry #precise #thing

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

— Comte de Lautreamont

#arithmetic #geometry #grandiose #known #luminous

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry. ↗

— James Joseph Sylvester

#euclid #geometry #hater #made #me