May 8, 2004
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Royal Roads
“Here were assertions, as for example the intersection of the three altitudes of a triangle in one point,
which – though by no meansevident – could nevertheless be proved with such certainty that any doubt appeared to be out of the question. This lucidity and certainty made an indescribable impression upon me.”
– Albert Einstein
on his “holy geometry book”
(entry of 3/14/04)
“We’ll try to understand
how people decide what is true.”
– Nathaniel Miller
on his geometry course
“People make up stories
about what they experience.
Stories that catch on are called ‘true.’ “
– Richard J. Trudeau
on his geometry course
“There is no royal road to geometry.”
– Saying attributed to Euclid
“The royal road to knowledge,
it is easy to express:
to err, and err, and err again,
but less, and less, and less.”
– Nathaniel Miller‘s
geometry course
Prison-Abuse Panel is Third
in Bush’s War on Terrorism
– Headline from today’s
New York Times
“The royal road to ruin
is easy to explore:
err, and err, and err again,
but more, and more, and more.”
– George W. Bush’s
unholy geometry book
