Architecture Quote by H. P. Blavatsky

Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks was Astronomy, because it…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in…

— George Sarton

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

— Albert Einstein

Astrology had an important role in the ancient world. You can't understand many things unless you know something about astrology - the plays of…

— Steven Pinker

“Here indeed was the great defect of the Greek mind: it was not disciplined; it lacked limiting and steadying traditions; it moved freely in…

— Will Durant

It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.

— Otto E. Neugebauer

Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Greeks are interesting and extremely important because they reared such a vast number of great individuals. How was this possible? This question is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy…

— Jean-Baptiste Rousseau

Whatever the Letter, Greeks do it better!

— Anonymous

It is childish to assume that science began in Greece; the Greek "miracle" was prepared by millenia of work in Egypt, Mesopotamia and possibly…

— George Sarton

Astrology is assured of recognition from psychology, without further restrictions, because astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity.

— Anonymous