Plato Quotes

There is no royal road to geometry.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

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

If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment.

There are no sects in geometry.

I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat's meow.

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

I did math in school, obviously. And I loved all my math teachers.

I was a mathematics major and really into math.

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

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.

Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

You have to study a great deal to know a little.

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

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

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.

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

How few care about such things.

I love algebra. Love it.

Growing up in Highland Park, in high school, I had some very influential teachers: I had a math teacher who taught calculus that helped me learn to be in love with mathematics; I had a chemistry teacher who inspired us to work what was in the class and to go beyond.