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Euclid Quotes

Euclid for children is barbarous.

Euclid for children is barbarous.

Oliver Heaviside
Children, Euclid
Oliver Heaviside (1893). “Electromagnetic Theory”

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

James Joseph Sylvester
Study, Euclid, Made
James Joseph Sylvester (1870). “The Laws of Verse: Or Principles of Versification Exemplified in Metrical Translations, Together with an Annotated Reprint of the Inaugural Presidential Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association at Exeter”, p.126

Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Math, Euclid, Mathematical Beauty
"Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" l. 11 (1923)

Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Stones, Far Away, Euclid
"Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare" l. 11 (1923)

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

Arthur Cayley
Infinite, Modern, Euclid

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

Thomas Jefferson
Newton, Euclid, Newspapers
Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.37, Cambridge University Press

If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live.

Mahatma Gandhi
Men, Agency, Euclid
Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.

Edna St. Vincent Millay
Peace, Earth, Euclid
Edna St. Vincent Millay (2012). “The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay”, p.155, Modern Library

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