"Sire, there is no royal road to geometry."

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Source : Quoted in Proclus, Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elementa

Euclid

#Royal Quotes #Geometry Quotes

“The U.S. Forces are winning in Iraq. It is to be hoped that they will win at home also.”
“The ego needs recognition. The spirit does not need to thank itself.”
“When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!”
“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”
“I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.”
“The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment.”

Source : Daniel Bell (1965). “The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas”
“Practice is practice, chicken is chicken.”
“I think small groups have more collective wisdom than an individual.”

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