Payal Kadakia Quotes

There are all sorts of things embodied in the Lego brick - geometry and mathematics and truth and proportion and shape and colour... It is a faintly spiritual activity that everybody connects with.

Mathematics is the most beautiful and most powerful creation of the human spirit.

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.

I didn't discover curves; I only uncovered them.

Algebras deal not with laws of number, but with such laws of the human thinking machinery as have been discovered in the course of investigations on numbers. Plane geometry deals with such laws of thought as were discovered by men intent on finding out how to measure surface; and solid geometry with such additional laws of thought as were discovered when men began to extend geometry into three dimensions.

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!

What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

As a child it was clear to me that in some sense math was in the world around us. I became fascinated by what this means. When you look at the shape of the sun and the moon, they're circles, so every time you see a circular thing, there's pi embedded in it.

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

I spent half my life, roughly speaking, doing the study of nature in many aspects and half of my life studying completely artificial shapes. And the two are extraordinarily close; in one way both are fractal.

The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.

A pool game mixes ritual with geometry.

We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads.

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

But actually a code is a language for translating one thing into another. And mathematics is the language of science. My big thesis is that although the world looks messy and chaotic, if you translate it into the world of numbers and shapes, patterns emerge and you start to understand why things are the way they are.

Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man’s work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes.

There are no sects in geometry.

Man must speak, then sing, then dance. The speaking is the brain, the thinking man. The singing is the emotion. The dancing is the Dionysian ecstasy which carries away all.