Famous quotes containing the words mathematical and/or objects:
“The most distinct and beautiful statement of any truth must take at last the mathematical form.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“Adultery itself in its principle is many times nothing but a curious inquisition after, and envy of another mans enclosed pleasures: and there have been many who refused fairer objects that they might ravish an enclosed woman from her retirement and single possessor.”
—Jeremy Taylor (16131667)