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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.

- Twyla Tharp

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

- Stephen Hawking

Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.

- Claude Debussy

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

- John Guare

Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry.

- Alexander Pushkin

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

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

- Adam Putnam

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.

- Aiesha Harper

I`ve always been passionate about geometry and the study of three-dimensional forms.

- Alejandro Gonzalez

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

- Alessandro Banchi

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

- Alison Parken

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

- Andi Eichmann

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

- Andrei Gaidamaka

I find purer philosophy in a Poem than in a Conclusion of Geometry, a chemical analysis, or a physical law.

- Andrew Lo

Talking about science in the courtroom used to be like talking about geometry ? a real jury turnoff. Now that there`s this almost obsession with the (TV) shows, you can talk to jurors about (scientific evidence) and just see from the looks on their faces that they find it fascinating.

- B.J. Upton

Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

- Gustave Flaubert