Platonic Solids Quotes

On good days, I've done bubbles with as many as 38 faces - a row of pentagons, a row of hexagons, and another row of pentagons on bottom.

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.

When I do the dodecahedron with the science audiences, I'll point out that I can only do three of the five forms with bubbles, since bubbles only join at three-way corners. The two I can't do are the ones that represent water and air. That always gets a big laugh from the mathematicians. They see the irony in it.

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.

The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.

I used to make polyhedra with my father. There were no clear lines between games and toys for children and his professional work.

There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an edition of his works; yet to every generation these come duly down, for the sake of those few persons, as if God brought them written in his hand.

Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy.

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.