Erno Rubik Quotes

I love the simplicity of the Cube because it's a very clear geometrical shape, and I love geometry because it's the study of how the whole universe is structured.

If it is not now the time to study Geometry, when will it be?

I use trigonometry all the time.

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

There is no royal road to geometry.

Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction.

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

The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

Geometry is the only science that it hath pleased God hitherto to bestow on mankind.

Can you imagine young people nowadays making a study of trigonometry for the fun of it? Well I did.

Projective geometry is all geometry.

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

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

Our universe - it's three-dimensional, but we can pretend it's two-dimensional so it's like this sheet of paper - and we live in Pasadena over here and London is over there, and it's thousands of miles from Pasadena to London.

If you have ever studied geometry, you remember that by a course of reasoning Euclid proves that all the angles in a triangle are equal to two right angles. Euclid has shown you how to work it out. Now, if you undertake to disprove that proposition, and to show that it is erroneous, would you prove it to be false by calling Euclid a liar?

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.

Those ignorant of geometry shall not enter.

Approach nature in terms of the cylinder, the sphere, and the cone ...

Indeed, it is a proven mathematical theorem that a doughnut is topologically distinct from a sphere.