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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.

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.

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.

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

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

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.

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.

Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.

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

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

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

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.

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

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.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

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

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.