Certainty Quote by Daniel Tammet

What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore…

— Simon Singh

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

It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a…

— Arthur Koestler

“I want to drink the knowledge of Pythagorus's theorem.”

— Truth Devour

It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a…

— Bertrand Russell

“Kepler followed Proclus and believed that 'the main goal of Euclid was to build a geometric theory of the so-called Platonic solids.' Kepler was…

— C. Smoryński

In ancient days the Pythagoreans were used to change names with each other,--fancying that each would share the virtues they admired in the other.

— Henry David Thoreau

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the…

— Aristotle

“Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, “The wise man is always similar to himself.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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

— Vanna Bonta

In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not…

— G. H. Hardy

“It was difficult enough being a mathematician, this being the frightening subject of which even educated people knew nothing, not even what it was,…

— Andrew Hodges