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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.
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.
In terms of individuals who actually inspired me, very few of the academic people that I had access to had that power over me. Maybe it's simply because I wasn't that committed to geometry.
The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
You can't criticize geometry. It's never wrong.
One of the great challenges of modern cosmology is to discover what the geometry of the universe really is.
They certainly aren't connected with the old geometric art. My work isn't geometric in that sense.
Geometry is moribund. I want a lilt and joy to art.
Poetry is as precise a thing as geometry.