{"quotes":[{"text":"A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.","author":"Euclid","tags":["euclid","euclidean-geometry","geometry","golden-ratio","history-of-mathematics","mathematics","science"],"id":10257,"author_id":"Euclid"},{"text":"In a way, the Phi Triangle of the Golden Mean could be compared to the path of light sent forth from the great All-Seeing Eye of God in the beginning, and which paved the way for the creation of the Universe.","author":"William Eisen","tags":["divine-proportion","golden-mean","golden-ratio","history-of-mathematics","history-of-science","light","phi","universe"],"id":27874,"author_id":"William+Eisen"},{"text":"The Golden Number is a mathematical definition of a proportional function which all of nature obeys, whether it be a mollusk shell, the leaves of plants, the proportions of the animal body, the human skeleton, or the ages of growth in man.","author":"R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz","tags":["golden-number","golden-ratio","mathematics","nature","proportion","sacred-geometry"],"id":28546,"author_id":"R.A.+Schwaller+de+Lubicz"},{"text":"The Fibonacci Sequence turns out to be the key to understanding how nature designs... And is... A part of the same ubiquitous music of the spheres that builds harmony into atoms, molecules, crystals, shells, suns and galaxies and makes the Universe sing.","author":"Guy Murchie","tags":["design","fibonacci-sequence","golden-ratio","nature","sacred-geometry","universe"],"id":31558,"author_id":"Guy+Murchie"},{"text":"[The golden proportion] is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.","author":"Albert Einstein","tags":["einstein","geometry","golden-proportion","golden-ratio","mathematics","sacred-geometry"],"id":46065,"author_id":"Albert+Einstein"},{"text":"We therefore find that the triangles and rectangles herein described, enclose a large majority of the temples and cathedrals of the Greek and Gothic masters, for we have seen that the rectangle of the Egyptian triangle is a perfect generative medium, its ratio of five in width to eight in length 'encouraging impressions of contrast between horizontal and vertical lines' or spaces; and the same practically may be said of the Pythagorean triangle.","author":"Samuel Colman","tags":["architecture","design","golden-ratio","harmony","history-of-mathematics","nature","proportion","pythagorean","sacred-geometry"],"id":86900,"author_id":"Samuel+Colman"},{"text":"Buckminster Fuller explained to me once that because our world is constructed from geometric relations like the Golden Ratio or the Fibonacci Series, by thinking about geometry all the time, you could organize and harmonize your life with the structure of the world.","author":"Einar Thorsteinn","tags":["buckminster-fuller","fibonacci-sequence","golden-ratio","harmony","sacred-geometry"],"id":125525,"author_id":"Einar+Thorsteinn"},{"text":"The Golden Ratio defines the squaring of a circle. Stated in mathematical terms, this says: Given a square of known perimeter, create a circle of equal circumference. According to some, in ancient Egypt, this mathematical mystery was encoded in the measurements of the Great Pyramid of Giza.","author":"Marja de Vries","tags":["ancient-egypt","geometry","golden-ratio","history-of-mathematics","mathematics","sacred-geometry","squaring-the-circle"],"id":125814,"author_id":"Marja+de+Vries"},{"text":"Yandex translation from Croatian to English: Nomadom was the time when the ratio of beauty began to think about how about love than between two parts, in which opposites attract only magical powers, and the same ratio is equal to the lords and architecture and nature.","author":"Jasna Horvat","tags":["architecture","art","beauty","golden-ratio"],"id":159595,"author_id":"Jasna+Horvat"},{"text":"The golden era of the golden number was the Italian renaissance. The expression divine proportion was coined by the great mathematician Luca Pacioli in his book 'De divina proportione', written in 1509.","author":"Midhat Gazale","tags":["divine-proportion","golden-ratio","history-of-mathematics","history-of-science","mathematics","sacred-geometry"],"id":166553,"author_id":"Midhat+Gazale"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}