Believe Quote by Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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

— Truth Devour

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

— Vanna Bonta

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

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

“. . . we come astonishingly close to the mystical beliefs of Pythagoras and his followers who attempted to submit all of life to…

— Neil Postman

Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter…

— James Mark Baldwin

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it was constantly…

— Diogenes Laertius

No one will deny that the soul of Pythagoras was sent to mankind from Apollo's domain, having either been one of his attendants, or…

— Iamblichus

They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a…

— Carl Sagan

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

— Shaquille O'Neal

“Believe me, if Archimedes ever had the grand entrance of a girl as pretty as Gloria to look forward to, he would never have…

— David Klass