Euclid quotes
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“The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.”
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“And the whole is greater than the part.”
-- EuclidSource : "Euclid's Elements, Book I, Common Notion 8". Book by Euclid,
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“In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.”
-- EuclidSource : Euclid, Phillips (1826). “Elements of Geometry, Containing the First Six Books of Euclid”, p.41
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“A line is length without breadth.”
-- EuclidSource : 'Elementa' bk. 1, definition 2
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“That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.”
-- EuclidSource : Euclid, Dana Densmore (2002). “Euclid's Elements: all thirteen books complete in one volume : the Thomas L. Heath translation”, Green Lion Pr
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“Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.”
-- EuclidSource : Euclid (1956). “The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements”, p.222, Courier Corporation
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“Sire, there is no royal road to geometry.”
-- EuclidSource : Quoted in Proclus, Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elementa
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“A prime number is one (which is) measured by a unit alone.”
-- EuclidSource : "Euclid's Elements, Book 7, Definition 11". Book by Euclid,
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“Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.”
-- EuclidSource : Euclid (1956). “The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements”, p.3, Courier Corporation
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“Better balance, less pain and less restless leg syndrome.”
-- Euclid
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