Geometry Quotes - Page 9

• ...the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and cannot lead to an epistemological priority of Euclidean geometry, in contrast to the views of certain authors.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Space, Curves, Views

  Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.83, Courier Corporation

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• ..if a special geometry has to be invented in order to account for a falling apple, even Newton might be appalled at the complications which would ensue when really difficult problems are tackled.

  Oliver Lodge

  Fall, Order, Apples

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• Visual forms are not perceived differently from colors or brightness. They are sense qualities, and the visual character of geometry consists in these sense qualities.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Character, Color, Quality

  Hans Reichenbach (1958). “Philosophie Der Raum-Zeit-Lehre”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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• El concepto de congruencia en geometría euclidiana no es exactamente el mismo que en geometría no euclidiana. ... "Congruente" significa en geometría euclidiana lo mismo que "determinante del paralelismo", significado que no tiene en geometría no euclidiana.

  Hans Reichenbach

  Mean, Doe, Congruence

  "Filosofía del espacio y del tiempo". Libro de Hans Reichenbach, 1957.

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• Now, a 45-degree angle is not something we deal with in finance. It's something you see in a high school geometry class. Performance like that has never been recorded in human history.

  Harry Markopolos

  School, High School, Finance

  Fuente: www.gq.com

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• Seriously, you don't have to know English. It'd be nice, a nice little plus. We don't want miracles. You don't have to know the country's language. But just some shapes, that's all. A square. A little geometry.

  David Spade

  Country, Nice, Squares

  "David Spade: Take the Hit". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• I would say, if you like, that the party is like an out-moded mathematics...that is to say, the mathematics of Euclid. We need to invent a non-Euclidian mathematics with respect to political discipline.

  Alain Badiou

  Party, Discipline, Political

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• [En la comedia nunca quieres dejar a los actores en la estacada. Así que tienes que idear historias divertidas individuales para cada personaje, y luego hacer esta especie de geometría cómica, entrelazándolas. Una vez que tienes una estructura divertida y sabes por qué las escenas son divertidas, pones a gente muy divertida a decir tus propias líneas, a decir sus propias líneas, a decir las cosas a su manera, y cada escena es una reescritura en directo delante de la cámara.

  Jeff Schaffer

  Carácter, Personas, Juntos

  Fuente: espn.go.com

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• No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root' of geometry and, just as understanding the square root of -1 took centuries, the same might be true of spinors.

  Michael Atiyah

  Squares, Roots, Understanding

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• Podríamos presentar espacialmente un hecho atómico que contradijera las leyes de la física, pero no uno que contradijera las leyes de la geometría.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Matemáticas, Derecho, Hechos

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2014). "El Tractatus según su propia forma", p.38, Lulu.com.

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• Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence.

  Norman Mailer

  Psychics, Quarantine, Existential

  Norman Mailer, Michael Lennon (1988). “Conversations with Norman Mailer”, p.45, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The prime ideal is a princess of the world of ideals. Her father is the prince 'Point' in the world of geometry. Her mother is the princess 'Prime Numbers' in the world of numbers. She inherits the purity from her parents.

  Kato

  Mother, Father, Princess

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• Encantador no es la palabra que nos vendría inmediatamente a la mente al describir una obra que trata de geometría fractal, algoritmos iterados, teoría del caos y la segunda ley de la termodinámica, pero encaja a la perfección con la asombrosa obra de Tom Stoppard de 1993, que es tan bella como brillante. Este es un drama de Stoppard que no hace falta ser Einstein para entenderlo: se puede sentir y también pensar. (...) Impresionante, estimulante y profundamente satisfactorio.

  Lyn Gardner

  Beautiful, Drama, Spring

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• Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.

  René Descartes

  Two, Confusion, Experience

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• And in between the two, in between the sky and the sea, were all the winds. And there were all the nights and all the moons. To be a castaway is to be a point perpetually at the centre of a circle. However much things may appear to change-the sea may shift from whisper to rage, the sky might go from fresh blue to blinding white to darkest black-the geometry never changes. Your gaze is always a radius. The circumference is ever great. In fact, the circles multiply. To be a castaway is to be caught in a harrowing ballet of circles.

  Yann Martel

  Moon, Night, Blue

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• Every field has its taboos. In algebraic geometry the taboos are (1) writing a draft that can be followed by anyone but two or three of one's closest friends, (2) claiming that a result has applications, (3) mentioning the word 'combinatorial,' and (4) claiming that algebraic geometry existed before Grothendieck (only some handwaving references to 'the Italians' are allowed provided they are not supported by specific references).

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Writing, Two, Three

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• ...to characterize the import of pure geometry, we might use the standard form of a movie-disclaimer: No portrayal of the characteristics of geometrical figures or of the spatial properties of relationships of actual bodies is intended, and any similarities between the primitive concepts and their customary geometrical connotations are purely coincidental.

  Carl Gustav Hempel

  Math, Might Use, Body

  Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Galois read the geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Teenager, Science, Boys

  "Men of Mathematics".

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• For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature.

  Henry John Stephen Smith

  Class, Might, Cases

  Henry John Stephen Smith (1894). “Collected Mathematical Papers; Edited by J. W. L. Glaisher ... with a Mathematical Introduction by the Editor, Biographical Sketchesand a Portrait ...”

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• I write rhymes with addition and algebra, mental geometry.

  Hielo T

  Education, Writing, Mathematics

  Song: Mind Over Matter, Album: O.G. Original Gangster

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• The attempt to apply rational arithmetic to a problem in geometry resulted in the first crisis in the history of mathematics. The two relatively simple problems -- the determination of the diagonal of a square and that of the circumference of a circle -- revealed the existence of new mathematical beings for which no place could be found within the rational domain.

  David van Dantzig

  Determination, Simple, Squares

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• Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

  H. G. Wells

  Time, Men, Eight

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.6, Sparklesoup LLC

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• The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of arithmetic to geometry, mechanics, physics and even statistics involve these processes directly and indirectly.

  Tobias Dantzig

  Statistics, Physics, Infinite

  Tobias Dantzig (2005). "Número: El lenguaje de la ciencia", Dutton Juvenile

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• A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Time, Believe, Math

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• Mientras que los jóvenes llegan a ser expertos en geometría y matemáticas, y sabios dentro de estos límites, no parece que se encuentren jóvenes prudentes. La razón es que la prudencia se ocupa tanto de los particulares como de los universales, y los particulares se conocen por la experiencia, pero un joven carece de experiencia, ya que se necesita cierto tiempo para producirla.

  Aristotle

  Wise, Knowledge, Learning

  Aristotle, Terence Irwin (2000). “Nicomachean Ethics (Second Edition)”, p.93, Hackett Publishing

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