Complicated Quote by Garry Kasparov

Whatever the Letter, Greeks do it better!

— Anonymous

“I have read in some of the old histories that in early times the Greeks did not know how to write until two men,…

— Ibn Al-Nadim

“Many modern alphabets, including ours, retain with minor modifications that original sequence (and, in the case of Greek, even the letters’ original names: alpha,…

— Jared Diamond

It is not a great Xerxes army of words, but a compact Greek ten thousand that march safely down to posterity.

— James Russell Lowell

“The picture-writing of the Greeks in the pre-Homeric age was derived from a Semitic source, circa second millennium B.C., the type of alphabetic script…

— James John Courtenay

The sacred writings excepted, no Greek has been so much read and so variously translated as Euclid.

— Augustus De Morgan

Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose…

— Robert Fitzgerald

“There is only one universal language, which is the language of numbers and proportions that are so striking and stunningly built into the Great…

— Willem Witteveen

For my part, it was Greek to me.

— William Shakespeare

“The Proto-Canaanite ... seems to have employed 27 different characters. The Ugaritic alphabet from around the 14th century BCE uses 30 characters ... Phoenician…

— Angel Sáenz-Badillos

“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value)…

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

— Gilbert Murray