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I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.
Einstein's gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.
I think the universe is pure geometry - basically, a beautiful shape twisting around and dancing over space-time.
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.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
Relying on the face might be human nature - even babies prefer to look at attractive people. But, of course, judging someone based on the geometry of his features is, from a moral and legal standpoint, no better than judging him based on the color of his skin.
Life isn't about algebra and geometry. Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about.
If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images.
Writing is the geometry of the soul.
"I think all artists struggle to represent the geometry
Calligraphy is a geometry of the soul which manifests itself physically.
Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.
And so will I here state just plainly and briefly that I accept God. But I must point out one thing: if God does exist and really created the world, as we well know, he created it according to the principles of Euclidean geometry and made the human brain capable of grasping only three dimensions of space. Yet there have been and still are mathematicians and philosophers-among them some of the most outstanding-who doubt that the whole universe or, to put it more generally, all existence was created to fit Euclidean geometry; they even dare to conceive that two parallel lines that, according to Euclid, never do meet on earth do, in fact, meet somewhere in infinity. And so my dear boy, I've decided that I am incapable of understanding of even that much, I cannot possibly understand about God.
"A philosophical thought is not supposed to be impervious to all criticism; this is the error Whitehead describes of turning philosophy into geometry, and it is useful primarily as a way of gaining short-term triumphs in personal arguments that no one else cares (or even knows) about anyway. A good philosophical thought will always be subject to criticisms (as Heidegger's or Whitehead's best insights all are) but they are of such elegance and depth that they change the terms of debate, and function as a sort of "obligatory passage point" (Latour's term) in the discussions that follow.
I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way and I can feel how that will happen.
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
All one's inventions are true you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
Everything one invents is true you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
I do live like a rock star but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.
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