There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury;… — Arrian Copy Share Image
My mother actually left American in 1929 to be part of an alternative community of bohemians around her then father-in-law who was… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
This is a very special Greek kind of socialist, all the social democratic parties in Europe are against this idea and I… — Dora Bakoyannis Copy Share Image
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The motion of the stars calculated by the Hindus before some 4500 years vary not even a single minute from the tables… — Jean Sylvain Bailly Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired… — Salomon Bochner Copy Share Image
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
the Egyptians were the first to discover the solar year, and to portion out its course into twelve parts both the space… — Herodotus Copy Share Image
When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“Anekico ler aracnia" ~Victory to the spider "Ki mi ypomonitikosi teleson semerie" ~And today my patience ends” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmonious proportions to produce a creative intelligence. And so did the most… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Leaves are the Greek, flowers the Italian, phase of the spirit of beauty that reveals itself through the flora of the globe. — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
The idea of childhood as a social invention, in retrospect, is hardly credible. In the Bible, in writings of the Greeks and… — David Elkind Copy Share Image
The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed,… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day. — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
