Geometry
That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space.
A treatise on this science.
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Geometry Quotations
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Gustave Flaubert
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Pythagoras
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
Twyla Tharp
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
Robert M. Pirsig
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Federico Garcia Lorca
It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.
Henri Poincare
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
Henri Poincare
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.
Annie Dillard
Geometry Translations
geometry in Dutch is geometrie, meetkunde
geometry in German is Geometrie
geometry in Portuguese is geometria
geometry in Swedish is geometri
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