Quotes Tagged With :euclid

In Euclid's Elements we meet the concept which later plays a significant role in the development of science.....

Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night,....

I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics....

Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time....

A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the....

Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a....