Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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.
It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
My work is always very geometric.
Plane geometry is sort of the key course where you learn about proving things and abstraction.
Projective geometry is all geometry.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.
You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.