Quotes Tagged With :geometry

Billions of years ago there were just blobs of protoplasm; now billions of years later here we are. So....

Speed is simply the rite that initiates us intoemptiness: a nostalgic desire for forms to revert to immobility,....

In a way, art is a theory about the way the world looks to human beings. It’s abundantly obvious that....

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe....

The impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that....

The only things that can ever be universal, in a sense, are scaling things.

The pits and tangles are more than blemishes distorting the classic shapes of Euclidian geometry. They....

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous....

You don’t see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it

The geometer offers to the physicist a whole set of maps from which to choose. One map, perhaps, will....