Quotes about Geometry

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The early sense of self-similarity as an organizing principle came from the limitations on the human experience of scale — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
The boundary is where points are slowest to escape the pull of the set. It is as if they are balanced between competing — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
IN THE MIND’S EYE, a fractal is a way of seeing infinity. — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
One simple but powerful consequence of the fractal geometry of surfaces is that surfaces in contact do not touch everywh — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
The fractal structure nature has devised works so efficiently that, in most tissue, no cell is ever more than three or f — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They are often the key — James Gleick
Self-similarity is symmetry across scale. It implies recursion, pattern inside of pattern. — James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
The water beneath the Temple was both actual and metaphorical, existing as springs and streams, as spiritual energy, and — John Michell, The Dimensions of Paradise: Sacred Geometry, Ancient Science, and the Heavenly Order on Earth
In the pentagram, the Pythagoreans found all proportions well-known in antiquity: arithmetic, geometric, harmonic, and a — Alexey Stakhov, Mathematics of Harmony
The Golden Proportion, sometimes called the Divine Proportion, has come down to us from the beginning of creation. The h — Bonnie Gaunt, Beginnings: The Sacred Design
Buckminster Fuller explained to me once that because our world is constructed from geometric relations like the Golden R — Einar Thorsteinn
In Euclid's Elements we meet the concept which later plays a significant role in the development of science. The concept — Alexey Stakhov, "Golden" Non-Euclidean Geometry, The: Hilbert's Fourth Problem, "Golden" Dynamical Systems, and the Fine-Structure Constant
Give me a place to stand, a lever long enough and a fulcrum. and I can move the Earth — Archimedes
I forget if it was the Mathematician of Alexandria who said that geometry is beauty laid bare or the Father of Relativit — Michael Swanwick, Chasing the Phoenix
[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy. — Albert Einstein
The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in i — Schwaller de Lubicz
The Golden Ratio defines the squaring of a circle. Stated in mathematical terms, this says: Given a square of known peri — Marja de Vries, The Whole Elephant Revealed: Insights into the existence and operation of Universal Laws and the Golden Ratio
The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the grea — Midhat Gazale, Gnomon: From Pharaohs to Fractals
The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will fit the facts bett — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology
The play is independent of the pages on which it is printed, and ‘pure geometries’ are independent of lecture rooms, or — G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology