Belief Quote by Albert Claude

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature,…

— Dmitri Mendeleev

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience...

— Erwin Schrodinger

“The greatest thinkers of Greece — Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and later Plutarch and Plotinus — derived their ideas from ancient tradition, and further on…

— Herman Bavinck

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

— Blaise Pascal

“They had nothing in common except for existing in the same time and space”

— Pascal Garnier

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

— Nicholas of Cusa

Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining…

— David Bentley Hart

“Plato had one Big Idea from which everything else derived. He fundamentally defined reality as that which is permanent and unchanging. Only ideas are…

— Norman F. Cantor

“To Plato, God was a mathematician. To Kepler, too, and to Biehl and Fredhoj. I do not believe it was a coincidence that their…

— Peter Høeg

Geometry existed before creation.

— Plato

“What a deep [trust] in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of…

— Albert Einstein

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson