Compass Quote by Edward Gibbon

Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix…

— Bertrand Russell

Aristotle was by far a less able thinker than Plato ... he was completely overwhelmed by Plato.

— Wolfgang Pauli

“Aristotle draws a sharp dividing-line between the activities of the physicist and those of the mathematician. The mathematician limits his enquiry to the quantifiable…

— John D. Barrow

“Plato's point is that we can never have true knowledge of anything that is in a constant state of change. We can only have…

— Jostein Gaarder

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

— Julian Baggini

“I have come to appreciate the pivotal distinction between Plato’s concept of Eternal Truths versus Aristotle’s experience-based understanding. I also now realize the crucial…

— Ken Elmgren

Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed only to…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“Aristotle's later view of the relationship between mathematics and Nature could not have been more different. He wanted to rescue physical science from the…

— John D. Barrow

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature,…

— Dmitri Mendeleev

“Plato would hardly need to change a single word of his myth of the cave. Our knowledge would not be able to furnish an…

— Lev Shestov

The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not…

— Anonymous

“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole…

— Petr Beckmann