Ancient Quote by G. H. Hardy

Newton was not the first of the age of reason. He was the last of the magicians, the last of the Babylonians and Sumerians,…

— John Maynard Keynes

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

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed…

— Arthur Koestler

We know next to nothing with any certainty about Pythagoras, except that he was not really called Pythagoras. The name by which he is…

— Daniel Tammet

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“I had better say something here about this question of age, since it is particularly important for mathematicians. No mathematician should ever allow himself…

— G.H. Hardy

Had one's age been the sole criterion for his knowledge and wisdom,then many inventors & innovators would have the oldest people only.

— Anuj Somany

For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest…

— Stanislaw Ulam

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

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

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

— Vanna Bonta

“All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have. ALBERT EINSTEIN (1879–1955)”

— Carl Sagan