Geometric Shape Quotes

If you look at a shape like a straight line, what's remarkable is that if you look at a straight line from close by, from far away, it is the same; it is a straight line.

The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.

Whether you know the shape of a pebble or the structure of a solar system, the anxioms remain the same: that it exists and that you know it.

Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

A line is a dot that went for a walk.

The reason bubbles are spherical is that a sphere is the smallest, most economical form possible to contain a given volume.

We often say that the earth is a sphere, but to be precise, the term sphere refers only to the surface. The correct mathematical term for the solid earth is a ball.

There's a little triangle - five left-footed players.

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese.

If I hold up one corner of a square and the student cannot workout the other three for himself, I won't go any further.

I was searching for a way to demonstrate 3D movement to my students and one day found myself staring into the River Danube, looking at how the water moved around the pebbles. This became the inspiration for the cube's twisting mechanism. The fact that it can do this without falling apart is part of its magic.

A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

The Cube is, at the same time, a symbol of simplicity and complexity.

But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard-to-pin-down striated pillow formation.

Squareness is such a uniquely intellectual disease.

The most interesting characteristic of the cube is that it is relatively uninteresting. Compared to any other three-dimensional form, the cube lacks any aggressive force, implies no motion, and is least emotive. Therefore, it is the best form to use as a basic unit for any more elaborate function, the grammatical device from which the work may proceed.

I'm in shape, but only if you consider a circle a shape.

I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

The Earth isn't an infinite sheet that carries on for ever, but it doesn't have an edge, either. It's compact and connected.

I like the triangle. My first season, the whole first season, we played nothing but the triangle, so I know it pretty well.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.