Quotes by great minds on geometry and its power and uses.

1. Whoever wishes to comprehend the true nature of existing things
should turn his attention to numbers and proportions, because it is by
them that everything is made clear.
Imblichus (circa 300 CE)

2. The universe cannot be read until we have learnt the language and
become familiar with the characters in which it is written. It is written in
mathematical language, and the letters are triangles, circles and other
geometrical figures, without which means it is humanly impossible to
comprehend a single word.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

3. There is a mysterious unity about the patterns found throughout the
whole of creation. From the smallest of molecules to the biggest of the
planetary ‘particles’ revolving around the Sun, everything depends upon
its stability upon an incredibly simple, very elegant geometric
patterning.
Charles, Prince of Wales (1948-Living)

4. All things that exist can be distinguished through enumeration. Numbers
identify things and also express orderly relationships among things. The
essence of numbers relates to the harmonious existence of all things.
Arignote, daughter of Pythagoras (circa 500 BCE)

5. The golden ratio is the key to universal physics.
Sir Edward Victor Appleton, Nobel prize winner (1892-1965)

6. 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.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

7. The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious,a
point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it.
It is one of those paths to the centre.
Carl Jung (1875-1961)

8. There is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it,
and having seen it, to find it in himself.
Plato (428-347 BCE)

9. We could present spatially an atomic fact which contradicted the laws of
physics, but not one which contradicted the laws of geometry.
Ludwig Wittgenstein(1889-1951)

10. I have come to realize that each expression of sentiment is made by a
movement governed by geometry. Geometry is everywhere present in
nature. A woman combing her hair goes through a series of rhythmic
movements that constitutea beautiful harmony. The entire rhythm of
the body is governed by geometric law.
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

11. The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal.
Plato (428-347 BCE)

12. It is the glory of geometry that from so few principles, it is able to
accomplish so much.
Isaac Newton (1642-1726)

13. Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right.
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406)

14. The geometrical method is not so rigidly confined to geometry itself that
it cannot be applied to other branches of knowledge as well. A work of
morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being
equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.
Bernard de Fontenelle(1657-1757)

15. Mighty is geometry—joined with art, irresistible.
Euripides (480-406 BCE)

16. If a man is at once acquainted with the geometric foundation of things
and with their festal splendor, his poetry is exact and his arithmetic
musical.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

17. Geometry is the right foundation of all painting.
Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528)

18. It is indeed wonderful that so simple a figure as the triangle is so
inexhaustible in properties.
August Crelle (1780-1855)

19. Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

20. The geometer is only complete insofar as he feels within himself the
beauty of the true.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)