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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

Topics: Art Decided Eager Foundation Geometry Painting Principles Right Since Teach Youngsters

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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

Topics: Absolute Added Arithmetic Even Flowers Geometry Grew Inside Like Maybe Obedience Only Perfect Plane Rock Spread Stones Understood

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I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.

~Antony Garrett Lisi

Topics: Around Basically Beautiful Dancing Geometry Over Pure Shape Think Universe I Think

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What physics tells us is that everything comes down to geometry and the interactions of elementary particles. And things can happen only if these interactions are perfectly balanced.

~Antony Garrett Lisi

Topics: Balanced Down Elementary Everything Geometry Happen Interactions Only Particles Perfectly Physics Tells Things Us

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Projective geometry is all geometry.

~Arthur Cayley

Topics: Geometry

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Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

~Arthur Cayley

Topics: Absolutely Approximately Been Being Experience Geometry Long Only Our Physical Regard Regarded Remain Space True Which

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There's a theory that says that life is based on a competition and the struggle and the fight for survival, and it's interesting because when you look at the fractal character of evolution, it's totally different. It's based on cooperation among the elements in the geometry and not competition.

~Bruce Lipton

Topics: Among Based Because Character Competition Cooperation Different Elements Evolution Fight Geometry Interesting Life Look Says Struggle Survival Theory Totally You

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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.

~Carl Friedrich Gauss

Topics: Am Cannot Coming Conviction Geometry Human Intellect Least More More And More Necessity Neither Nor Our I Am

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I believe that all centers that appear in space - whether they originate in biology, in physical forces, in pure geometry, in color - are alike simply in that they all animate space. It is this animated space that has its functional effect upon the world, that determines the way things work, that governs the presence of harmony and life.

~Christopher Alexander

Topics: Alike Animate Animated Appear Believe Biology Centers Color Determines Effect Forces Functional Geometry Governs Harmony Life Originate Physical Presence Pure Simply Space Things Way Whether Work World I Believe I Believe That

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In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.

~Christopher Wren

Topics: Another Beauty Confusion Geometry Great Makes Much No Respect Once Optics Provided Respect Rules Seen Things Transgress Variety Vice

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