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Geometry Quotes

Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.

Quoted in Proclus, Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elementa

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

Euclid (1956). “The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements”, p.3, Courier Corporation

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.

Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.85, Modern Library

The detailed geometry of the coenzyme molecule as a whole is fascinating in its complexity.

Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Dodson (1994). “The collected works of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”

There are no sects in geometry.

Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.131, Penguin

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

Plato (2001). “Plato's Republic: The Theatre of the Mind”, p.273, Agora Publications, Inc.

An American is a complex of occasions, themselves a geometry of spatial nature.

Charles Olson (1993). “Selected Poems of Charles Olson”, p.148, Univ of California Press

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

"Astrology, Science, and Society: Historical Essays" edited by P. Curry, (p. 154), 1987.