Metrical Quotes

Your life gets geometrically worse the more you travel for business. The truth is that you often end up eating a bad hamburger after a long day of travel--that's if you're lucky enough to find room service open after 11 p.m. A child would only be an unwanted distraction. - Joe Brancatelli

While geometrical concepts can be enriched by culture-specific devices like maps, or the terms of a natural language, underneath this variability lies a shared set of geometrical concepts. Those concepts allow adults and children with no formal education, and minimal spatial language, to categorize geometrical forms and to use geometrical relationship to represent the surrounding spatial layout. - Elizabeth Spelke

When the war closed we were challenged with a peace-time choice between the American system of rugged individualism and a European philosophy of diametrically opposed doctrines - doctrines of paternalism and state socialism. - Herbert Hoover

We're looking for a site to be clean, pleasant and symmetrical. We're looking for proper use of screen real estate and balance. - Gord Hotchkiss

We wanted an urban look with an outside that was simple and symmetrical. - Joe Hale

We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic. - Aristotle

We can no longer apply the classic criteria to clearly determine whether and when we should use military force. We are waging war in Afghanistan, for example, but it's an asymmetrical war where the enemies are criminals instead of soldiers. - Otto Schily

We are not saying there are stoves or pistons on Mars... Absolutely not. When we began looking at these objects, what struck us was how remarkably symmetrical, how remarkably designed-looking, how remarkably manufactured some of these things looked. - Richard Hoagland

To the person that deals in visualizations, I suppose there is something rather exciting about a whole set of people - they all going symmetrically, up or down, in a military sort of precision. - Leo Ornstein