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"There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing." Isaac D'Israeli
"There is no royal road to geometry." (μή εἶναι βασιλικήν ἀτραπόν ἐπί γεωμετρίαν) [Non est regia [inquit Euclides] ad Geometriam via] – Reply given when the ruler Ptolemy I Soter asked Euclid if there was a shorter road to learning geometry than through Euclid's Elements.
"It seems that the ancient philosophers made the first attempts at this sort of science, in looking for metaphysical relationships between numbers and material bodies. When they said that God occupies himself with geometry, they surely meant that He unites in that science the works of His power with the perspectives of His…
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