Geometric Theorems Quotes

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

I have no fault to find with those who teach geometry. That science is the only one which has not produced sects; it is founded on analysis and on synthesis and on the calculus; it does not occupy itself with the probable truth; moreover it has the same method in every country.

The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.

One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

There are no sects in geometry.

Four circles to the kissing come, The smaller are the benter. The bend is just the inverse of The distance from the centre. Though their intrigue left Euclid dumb There's now no need for rule of thumb. Since zero bend's a dead straight line And concave bends have minus sign, The sum of squares of all four bends Is half the square of their sum.