Famous quotes containing the words similar and/or triangles:
“So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)