
“Parallel lines have a common end point at an infinite distance.”
Brouillion project (1639) as quoted by Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Projective Geometry (1987)
Brouillion project (1639) as quoted by Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Projective Geometry (1987)
“Parallel lines have a common end point at an infinite distance.”
Brouillion project (1639) as quoted by Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter, Projective Geometry (1987)
“A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
“In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.”
Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“The straight line is regarded as the shortest distance between two people, as if they were points.”
Nun gilt für die kürzeste Verbindung zwischen zwei Personen die Gerade, so als ob sie Punkte wären.
E. Jephcott, trans. (1974), § 20
Minima Moralia (1951)
“Distance in a straight line has no mystery. The mystery is in the sphere.”
“There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.”
Forty Singing Seamen
Poems (1906)
“Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.”
El ir derecho acorta las distancias, y también la vida.
Voces (1943)
Interview by Adam Holdorf for Real Change News, (18 March 2004).
Quoted in "Technologies of Landscape: From Reaping to Recycling" - by David E. Nye - Nature - 2000.