These geometry quotes will inspire you. Geometry is, with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics or the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogs.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging geometry quotes, geometry sayings, and geometry proverbs.
Best Geometry Quotes
- “Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.” ~ Johannes Kepler
- “There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.” ~ Pythagoras
- “Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.” ~ Plato
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“Where there is matter, there is geometry.” ~ Johannes Kepler
- “Mighty is geometry; joined with art, resistless.” ~ Euripides
- “It is through geometry that one purifies the eye of the soul.” ~ Plato
- “I think the universe is pure geometry – basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.” ~ Antony Garrett Lisi
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“Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent.” ~ Pythagoras
- “Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one’s mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.” ~ Ibn Khaldun
- “There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.” ~ Voltaire
- “Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.” ~ Stephen Hawking
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“Geometry is the foundation of all painting.” ~ Albrecht Durer
- “Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.” ~ George Polya
- “In order to give meaning to the world, one has to feel oneself involved in what he frames. This attitude requires concentration, a discipline of mind, sensitivity, and a sense of geometry.” ~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
- “Algebra is nothing more than geometry, in words;
geometry is nothing more than algebra, in pictures.” ~ Sophie Germain -
“Geometry draws the soul towards truth.” ~ Plato
- “Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.” ~ Plato
- “The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.” ~ Isaac Newton
- “The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.” ~ Louis de Bernieres
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“The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.” ~ Plato
- “Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a coastline or a tree.” ~ Benoit Mandelbrot
- “The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.” ~ Aristotle
- “Geometry existed before the creation. It is co-eternal with the mind of God…Geometry provided God with a model for the Creation.” ~ Johannes Kepler
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“Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.” ~ Claude Debussy
- “Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.” ~ Gustave Flaubert
- “Geometry is knowledge that appears to be produced by human beings, yet whose meaning is totally independent of them.” ~ Rudolf Steiner
- “One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient.” ~ Henri Poincare
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“Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that Man is the image of God.” ~ Johannes Kepler
- “Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God” ~ Johannes Kepler
- “As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.” ~ Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- “Let no one destitute of geometry enter my doors.” ~ Plato
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“No employment can be managed without arithmetic, no mechanical invention without geometry.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.” ~ Euclid
- “I’m all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.” ~ J. Michael Straczynski
- “Geometry, which before the origin of things was coeternal with the divine mind and is God himself (for what could there be in God which would not be God himself?), supplied God with patterns for the creation of the world, and passed over to Man along with the image of God; and was not in fact taken in through the eyes.” ~ Johannes Kepler
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“Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.” ~ Euclid
- “Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line.” ~ Benoit Mandelbrot
- “Writing is the geometry of the soul.” ~ Plato
- “It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.” ~ E. W. Howe
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“Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.” ~ Henri Poincare
- “Projective geometry is all geometry.” ~ Arthur Cayley
- “Geometry is the rules of all mental investigation” ~ Mikhail Lomonosov
- “I did not know then that this is what life is – just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you’re swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.” ~ Ta-Nehisi Coates , Geometry quotes about life
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“Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.” ~ Henri Poincare
- “A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one sex as Other, as absolute Other, what does the most recent development in topology allow us to posit?” ~ Jacques Lacan
- “Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones – maybe only the stones – understood.” ~ Annie Dillard
- “Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.” ~ Xenocrates
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“Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.” ~ Xenocrates
- “And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .” ~ Albrecht Durer
- “Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.” ~ Steven Chu
- “Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as we have succeeded in unraveling fully the natural laws which govern reality, we find them to be expressible by mathematical relations of surprising simplicity and architectonic perfection. It seems to me to be one of the chief objects of mathematical instruction to develop the faculty of perceiving this simplicity and harmony.” ~ Hermann Weyl , Geometry quotes math
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“Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.” ~ Sophie Germain
- “I may not be great at geometry but I know one theorum. The longest distance between two points is you and your parents.” ~ Jane Wagner
- “Music is geometry in time.” ~ Arthur Honegger
- “The universe does not exist ‘out there,’ independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be happening. We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense, this is a participatory universe. Physics is no longer satisfied with insights only into particles, fields of force, into geometry, or even into time and space. Today we demand of physics some understanding of existence itself.” ~ John P. Wheeler III
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“One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.” ~ Robert M. Pirsig
- “The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.” ~ Jean Cocteau
- “Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.” ~ Thomas Hobbes
- “I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect. . . Geometry should be ranked, not with arithmetic, which is purely aprioristic, but with mechanics.” ~ Carl Friedrich Gauss
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“Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!” ~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
- “I constantly meet people who are doubtful, generally without due reason, about their potential capacity [as mathematicians]. The first test is whether you got anything out of geometry. To have disliked or failed to get on with other [mathematical] subjects need mean nothing; much drill and drudgery is unavoidable before they can get started, and bad teaching can make them unintelligible even to a born mathematician.” ~ John Edensor Littlewood
- “About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman’s library, Euclid’s Elements lay open, and “twas the 47 El. libri I” [Pythagoras’ Theorem]. He read the proposition “By God”, sayd he, “this is impossible:” So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.” ~ John Aubrey
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“Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!” ~ Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
- “About Thomas Hobbes: He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry; which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman’s library, Euclid’s Elements lay open, and “twas the 47 El. libri I” [Pythagoras’ Theorem]. He read the proposition “By God”, sayd he, “this is impossible:” So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition; which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.” ~ John Aubrey
- “When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the history of architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas – the idea of eternity.” ~ Walter Cronkite
