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— Anonymous

The Greeks according to official history used letters for hundreds, for tens, and ones.It was extremely complicated. If you talk about Archimedes, you should…

— Garry Kasparov

“The Greeks, meanwhile, explicitly rejected zero. Since their mathematical system was based on geometry, numbers had to represent space of one sort or another—length,…

— Chris Anderson

“Before the Arabic numerals replaced the Roman ones, the hexadecimal system (taken from Chinese) was present in italian which didn't recognize 'Zero' - hence,…

— Ibrahim Ibrahim

“When the alchemist speaks of Mercurius, on the face of it he means quicksilver (mercury), but inwardly he means the world-creating spirit concealed or…

— C.G. Jung

“To be sure, the would-be decipherers did have one advantage. Long before Botta and Layard had begun their excavations, a limited number of inscriptions…

— Samuel Noah Kramer

“Many modern alphabets, including ours, retain with minor modifications that original sequence (and, in the case of Greek, even the letters’ original names: alpha,…

— Jared Diamond

“There is only one universal language, which is the language of numbers and proportions that are so striking and stunningly built into the Great…

— Willem Witteveen

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

— Augustus De Morgan

“As for astronomy, the Greeks did not accept their own or any of the original mythologies with which they came in contact. The refusal…

— George Bailey

To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed a kind…

— Michel Seuphor

“The picture-writing of the Greeks in the pre-Homeric age was derived from a Semitic source, circa second millennium B.C., the type of alphabetic script…

— James John Courtenay