Music is the arithmetic of sounds as
optics is the geometry of light.
?Claude Debussy
There are some who, because the point is
the limit and extreme of the line, the line of
the plane, and the plane of the solid, think
there must be real things of this sort.
?Aristotle
The two elements the traveler first captures
in the big city are extrahuman architecture and
furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
?Federico Garcia Lorca
Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic
flowers. They lengthened and spread, added
plane to plane in an awed and perfect
obedience to an absolute geometry that
even stones -- maybe only the stones --
understood.
?Annie Dillard
The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a
pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it
can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie,
and it is what Euclid did to geometry.
?Eric Temple Bell
