Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.
Galileo GalileiTag: science nature cosmology math astronomy geometry
I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.
Alain BadiouTag: party communism mathematics geometry mao badiou euclid maoism
In the various arts, and above all in that of writing, the shortest distance between two points, even if close to each other, has never been and never will be, nor is it now, what is known as a straight line, never, never, to put it strongly and emphatically in response to any doubts, to silence them once and for all.
José SaramagoTag: geometry
Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...
Thomas JeffersonTag: science opinions physics civil-rights geometry
In reality the universe has no geometry.
Kedar JoshiTag: reality universe idealism geometry nstp-theory
Everybody at the party is a many sided polygon....Nonagon!
They Might Be GiantsTag: song they-might-be-giants geometry nonagon polygon
Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth
ArchimedesHe could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed by accident; slain not as an individual but by sheer statistical probability, by the calculated chance of searching fire, even as he himself might be at any moment. Mathematics! Mathematics! Algebra! Geometry! When 1st and 3d Squads came diving and tumbling back over the tiny crest, Bell was content to throw himself prone, press his cheek to the earth, shut his eyes, and lie there. God, oh, God! Why am I here? Why am I here? After a moment's thought, he decided he better change it to: why are we here. That way, no agency of retribution could exact payment from him for being selfish.
James JonesTag: fear death warfare selfishness statistics probability retribution mathematics geometry algebra payment bell machine-guns
What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding.
"Isosceles," Jack quipped.
Tag: quip geometry math-humor retort
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.
Johannes KeplerTag: science gold math treasure mathematics geometry pythagoras pythagorean-theorem
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