Quote by Chris Anderson

“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

“The Greeks couldn't do this neat little mathematical trick. They didn't have the concept of a limit because they didn't believe in zero. The…

— Charles Seife

“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity,…

— Hermann Weyl

“Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.”

— C.S. Lewis

We are only geometricians of matter; the Greeks were, first of all, geometricians in the apprenticeship to virtue.

— Simone Weil

“because the Greeks existed among things and did not position the world in relation to themselves, they could not be subiectum. They did not…

— Barbara Bolt

“It is a bizarre, but nevertheless psychologically exact, fact that the physics of the Greeks — being statics and not dynamics — neither knew…

— Oswald Spengler

“Where numbers only represent real things, you don’t need a number to express the absence of something. It is an abstract concept and only…

— Chris Anderson

“Zero has had a long history. The Babylonians invented the concept of zero; the ancient Greeks debated it in lofty terms (how could something…

— Dan Ariely

Before Europeans learned about zero, Descartes could not have come up with Cartesian geometry. All anyone had ever tried was to do better and…

— Bryan Johnson

Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can…

— Rene Descartes

“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