Pythagorean Quotes

12 quotes by 10 authors

That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really… — Shaquille O'Neal
If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you… — Seneca the Younger
Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with… — Arthur Koestler
Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the Pythagorean theorem just… — Jonathan Haidt
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine.… — Bertrand Russell
This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest. But Philolaus the… — Plutarch
And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.' — Clement of Alexandria
Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man, therefore,… — Herbert Spencer
Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer! — Shaquille O'Neal
There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points,… — Shaquille O'Neal
You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off… — Desiderius Erasmus
In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from… — Margaret Wertheim

Who Wrote These Pythagorean Quotes

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