Bring Quote by Dmitri Mendeleev

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in…

— Werner Heisenberg

“Plato holds a special place among them. His detailed interpretation of matter as a hollow space surrounded by regularly shaped bodies was too specific…

— Henning Genz

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

— Albert Claude

The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by the new…

— Edward Gibbon

“Most scientists and mathematicians operate as if Platonism is true regardless of whether they believe that it is. That is, they work as though…

— John D. Barrow

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

— Julian Baggini

Had there been no Plato, the Christians would have had a harder time selling the idea that all God really wanted from us was…

— Richard Rorty

All thought is naught but a footnote to Plato.

— George Santayana

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Of all conceivable reasons for some sequence of physical events Plato recognizes only its ultimate aim as worthy of attention. The world is as…

— Henning Genz

“Plato found mathematics very absorbing because mathematical states never change.”

— Jostein Gaarder

This missing science of heredity, this unworked mine of knowledge on the borderland of biology and anthropology, which for all practical purposes is as…

— George Herbert