Mathematics Quote by Caryl Churchill

And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly…

— Rebecca Goldstein

“the aging and grumpy Plato, in Book VII of the Laws, gave his definition of scientific illiteracy: Who is unable to count one, two,…

— Carl Sagan

“The ancient Greeks thought there was no need to count something that was nothing. And since it was nothing, they held that it was…

— Yōko Ogawa

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

— Clement of Alexandria

“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or…

— Yoko Ogawa

“But something about the static truth of numbers hurt my brain. Numbers felt sharp. Words felt elastic and springy. Language had an unpredictable, quicksilver…

— Susanna Kaysen

“Numbers tell a story but peoplebring it to life.”

— Dave Bookbinder

“I don't know whether you know this, but there are people in the world with a very odd gift, one that looks like crossed…

— Elizabeth Knox

“Such is the arithmetic of adventure, in which two and two no more make only four than that Euclid rules in the Universe of…

— William Bolitho

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

— Vanna Bonta

“I prefer to think Of numbers not words Their precision Puts me at Ease with the Clarity of it all   No grey no…

— John Moran

“Tulips, I thought, staring at the jumble of letters before me. Had the ancient Greeks known them under a different name, if they’d had…

— Donna Tartt