Golden Proportion Quotes

“The golden proportion is a scale of proportions which makes the bad difficult [to produce] and the good easy.”
― Albert Einstein

“Highly complex numbers like the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and Phi (sometimes called the Golden Proportion), are known as irrational numbers. They lie deep in the structure of the physical universe, and were seen by the Egyptians as the principles controlling creation, the principles by which matter is precipitated from the cosmic mind.

Today scientists recognize the Comma of Pythagoras, Pi and the Golden Proportion as well as the closely related Fibonacci sequence are universal constants that describe complex patterns in astronomy, music and physics. ...

To the Egyptians these numbers were also the secret harmonies of the cosmos and they incorporated them as rhythms and proportions in the construction of their pyramids and temples.”
― Jonathan Black, Mark Booth

“The golden ratio is a reminder of the relatedness of the created world to the perfection of its source and of its potential future evolution.”
― Robert Lawlor, Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and Practice

“Schwaller de Lubicz identifies the Golden Mean as "the fundamental scission," or division of one into two, that creates three things - the original whole and two parts, one in golden proportion to the whole and the other in golden proportion to that.”
― Richard Heath , Matrix of Creation: Sacred Geometry in the Realm of the Planets

“The Golden Mean was considered a fundamental constant by the Egyptians and the fundamental division of the whole into two parts.”
― Richard Heath, Sacred Number and the Origins of Civilization: The Unfolding of History Through the Mystery of Number