Atheism Quote by Carl Sagan

Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of…

— Lucio Russo

“it is clear that in the study of beings this aim can be fulfilled by us perfectly only through successive examinations of them by…

— George F. Hourani

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

— Nicholas of Cusa

Some people do indeed say that Eratosthenes could not have inferred the true measure of the earth. Whether true or untrue, it cannot affect…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“The Age of Intellect is accompanied by surprising advances in natural science. In the ninth century, for example, in the age of Mamun, the…

— John Bagot Glubb

People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North…

— Richard Dawkins

“For the observed difference in the shadow lengths, the distance between Alexandria and Syene had to be about seven degrees along the surface of…

— Carl Sagan

I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

— Johannes Kepler

Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of…

— Seth Shostak

Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry…

— Archimedes

Our saints had said that Earth existed 1.96 million years ago. Earlier, science did not accept this, but later, it had to.

— Rajnath Singh

“Kepler followed Proclus and believed that 'the main goal of Euclid was to build a geometric theory of the so-called Platonic solids.' Kepler was…

— C. Smoryński