Quotes by Euclid Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. Arthur Cayley euclid modern infinite Euclid Alone Has Looked on Beauty Bare. Edna St. Vincent Millay mathematical-beauty euclid math Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare. Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere. Edna St. Vincent Millay euclid earth peace Euclid alone Has looked on Beauty bare. Fortunate they Who, though once only and then but far away, Have heard her massive sandal set on stone. Edna St. Vincent Millay euclid far-away stones The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry. James Joseph Sylvester euclid study made If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live. Mahatma Gandhi euclid agency men Euclid for children is barbarous. Oliver Heaviside euclid children I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier. Thomas Jefferson euclid newton newspapers
