Quips

On this page are all quips from the game (or, at least, there will be all quips at some point). The purpose is twofold: 1. to provide a place to just have fun looking at all the quotes and 2. to let anyone quickly store a quip when they see it without needing to take all the time to set up a new page with solution, etc.

## Quips

### Alpha

1.1 Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here. — Plato

1.2 Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school. — Albert Einstein

1.3 Without geometry, life would be pointless. — Joke

1.4 You can't fit a round peg in a square hole. — American proverb

1.5 Without mathematics there is no art. — Luca Pacioli

1.6 Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. — Blaise Pascal

1.7 Where there is matter, there is geometry. — Johannes Kepler

### Beta

2.1 The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn. — Isaac Newton

2.2 Have the courage to use your own reason. — Immanuel Kant

2.3 Inspiration is needed in geometry, just as much as in poetry. — Alexander Pushkin

2.4 Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. — Blaise Pascal

2.5 Measure twice, cut once! — Proverb

2.6 The knowledge of which geometry aims is the knowledge of the eternal. — Plato

2.7 What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense. — Pierre-Simon Laplace

2.8 If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. — Francis Bacon

2.9 Intellectual labor in math lessons is the touchstone of thinking. — Vasili Sukhomlinsky

2.10 The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. — Godfrey Hardy

### Gamma

3.1 The study of the mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness, but ends in magnificence. — Charles Colton

3.2 A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. — Alfred Rényi

3.3 Knowledge exists to be imparted. — Ralph Emerson

3.4 All knowledge degenerates into probability. — David Hume

3.5 Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. — Alfred Tennyson

3.6 If there is a God, he is a great mathematician. — Paul Dirac

3.7 He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side. — Plato

3.8 To think deeply of simple things. — Arnold Ross

3.9 There is geometry in the humming of the strings. — Pythagoras

### Delta

4.1 A mathematical truth is neither simple nor complicated in itself, it is. — Emile Lemoine

4.2 The best angle from which to approach any problem is the try-angle. — Author Unknown

4.3 Logic is the anatomy of thought. — John Locke

4.4 We do not choose mathematics as our profession; it chooses us. — Yuri Manin

4.5 Mathematics is the most reliable form of prophecy. — Wilhelm Schwebel

4.6 The square root of 2 is also known as Pythagoras' constant. — Wikipedia

4.7 The square root of 3 is also known as Theodorus' constant. — Wikipedia

4.8 If we know anything we know it by mathematics. — Pierre Gassendi

4.9 For the first condition to be fulfilled in Mathematics is to be exact; the second is to be as clear and simple as possible. — Lazare Carnot

4.10 Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. — Henry Ford

4.11 The essential idea or method is always grasped intuitively long before any rational argument for the conclusion is devised. — Morris Kline

### Epsilon

5.1 It is ignorance alone that could lead anyone to try to prove the axiom. — Aristotle

5.2 Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic. — Pierre Boutroux

5.3 Mathematics is a tool for reasoning. — Richard Feynman

5.4 Mathematics is the science of those things that are clear in and of themselves. — Carl Jacobi

5.5 No other science than mathematics strengthens so much our faith in the power of the human mind. — Hugo Steinhaus

5.6 Geometry is the real life. — Oscar Zariski

5.7 Most people would die sooner than think — in fact they do so. — Bertrand Russell

5.8 A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. — Mark Twain

5.9 If you wish to learn swimming you have to go into the water and if you wish to become a problem solver you have to solve problems. — George Pólya

5.10 As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection. — Joseph Louis Lagrange

5.11 If only I had the theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough. — Bernard Riemann

### Zeta

6.3 Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work. — Leonardo da Vinci

6.5 There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel. — Aristotle

### Theta

8.4 The essence of mathematics is its freedom. — Georg Cantor

8.8 Math is not about following directions, it's about making new directions. — Paul Lockhart

### Iota

9.1 Neither thirty years, nor thirty centuries, affect the clearness, or the charm, of Geometrical truths. — Charles Dodgson

9.2 Everything around us is geometry. — Le Corbusier

### Lambda

11.1 Mathematics is concerned only with the enumeration and comparison of relations. — Carl Friedrich Gauss

11.2 Mathematics is the part of physics where experiments are cheap. — Vladimir Arnold

11.3 The Golden ratio has inspired thinkers of all disciplines like no other number in the history of mathematics. — Mario Livio

### Mu

12.10 A good mathematical joke is better, and better mathematics, than a dozen mediocre papers. — John Littlewood

### Xi

14.1 The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination. — Augustus de Morgan

14.2 There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry. — Martin Gardner

### Tutorials

Move Tool Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death. — Blaise Pascal

Intersect Tool Every intersection has a story. — Katherine Dunn