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- That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot… — 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… — 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… — Arthur Koestler
- Do people believe in human rights because such rights actually exist, like mathematical truths, sitting on a cosmic shelf next to the… — Jonathan Haidt
- With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why… — Bertrand Russell
- This excerpt is presented as reproduced by Copernicus in the preface to De Revolutionibus: "Some think that the earth remains at rest.… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — Desiderius Erasmus
- In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and… — Margaret Wertheim