Simon Singh Quotes

In Einstein's general relativity the structure of space can change but not its topology. Topology is the property of something that doesn't change when you bend it or stretch it as long as you don't break anything.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

Projective geometry is all geometry.

My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

Sometimes, properties of a fixed hyperbolic surface can be better understood by studying the moduli space that parameterises all hyperbolic structures on a given topological surface.

I want my street to be crazy, I want my avenues, shops and buildings, to enter into a crazy dance, and this is why I deform and distort their outlines and colours. However I always come up against the same difficulty, that if all the elements were one by one deformed and distorted excessively, if in the end nothing remained of their real outlines, I would have totally effaced the location that I intended to suggest, that I wished to transform.

To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

By stretching language we'll distort it sufficiently to wrap ourselves in it and hide.

Cancel me not - for what then shall remain? Abscissas, some mantissas, modules, modes, A root or two, a torus and a node: The inverse of my verse, a null domain.

Hee that is in a Taverne thinkes he is in a vine-garden.

The (method of) correction shall by a turn become distortion, and the good in it shall by a turn become evil.

If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown up to billboard size.

Perception is real even when it is not reality.

The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths.

Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

But if there was embellishment, it only had to do with the facts.

When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.

The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.

There is no truth which personal vice will not distort.

Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a minute. Time wasn't fixed. It wavered, stretched, shrank. Or was it me that wavered, stretched, and shrank in the silence? I was warped in the folds of time, like a reflection in a fun house mirror.

Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different