[1801]. The science of figures is most glorious and beautiful. But how inaptly it has received the name geometry!—Frischlinus, N.
Dialog 1.
[1802]. Plato said that God geometrizes continually.—Plutarch.
Convivialium disputationum, liber 8, 2.
[1803]. μηδεὶς ἐγεωμέτρητος εἰσίτω μοῦ [τὴν] στέγην. [Let no one ignorant of geometry enter my door.]—Plato.
Tzetzes, Chiliad, 8, 972.
[1804]. All the authorities agree that he [Plato] made a study of geometry or some exact science an indispensable preliminary to that of philosophy. The inscription over the entrance to his school ran “Let none ignorant of geometry enter my door,” and on one occasion an applicant who knew no geometry is said to have been refused admission as a student.—Ball, W. W. R.
History of Mathematics (London, 1901), p. 45.
[1805]. Form and size constitute the foundation of all search for truth.—Parker, F. W.
Talks on Pedagogics (New York, 1894), p. 72.