Ptolemy Quotes

6 quotes by 6 authors

• Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive.… — Victor Hugo
• I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who… — Christopher Columbus
• Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions. — Albert Claude
• That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,… — Walter Mosley
• Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great… — Gary Wolf

Who Wrote These Ptolemy Quotes

6 authors contributed a total of 6 Ptolemy Quotes as follows:

• 1 Ptolemy Quote by Victor Hugo
• 1 Ptolemy Quote by Christopher Columbus
• 1 Ptolemy Quote by Albert Claude
• 1 Ptolemy Quote by Walter Mosley
• 1 Ptolemy Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• 1 Ptolemy Quote by Gary Wolf