“Mathematical demonstrations being built upon the impregnable Foundations of Geometry and Arithmetick are the only truths that can sink into the Mind of Man, void of all Uncertainty; and all other Discourses participate more or less of Truth according as their Subjects are more or less capable of Mathematical Demonstration.” MenMindSubjectsCapableBuiltMathematicsFoundationMathematicalUncertaintyVoidDiscourseDemonstrationGeometry Book:Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century Source: Sir Christopher Wren and his times. With illustrative sketches and anecdotes of the most distinguished personages in the seventeenth century
“Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.” ArtSufferingSubjectsMathematicsAstronomyDivisionFiniteGeometryArithmeticAdornmentEmbellishmentJurisprudence Author:Gerolamo Cardano
“Every one who understands the subject will agree that even the basis on which the scientific explanation of nature rests is intelligible only to those who have learned at least the elements of the differential and integral calculus, as well as analytical geometry.” WellsSubjectsElementsBasesAgreeExplanationGeometryCalculusIntegral Calculus Author:Felix Klein
“Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.” DifficultSubjectsProveGeometryDifficult Subjects Author:Plato
“Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.” SubjectsPoetry IsPreciseGeometry Author:Gustave Flaubert