Ancient Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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

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

— Vanna Bonta

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

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The Pythagoreans... were fascinated by certain specific ratios, ...The Greeks knew these as the 'golden' proportion and the 'perfect' proportion respectively. They may well…

— Graham Flegg

Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can…

— Rene Descartes

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

“In the pentagram, the Pythagoreans found all proportions well-known in antiquity: arithmetic, geometric, harmonic, and also the well-known golden proportion, or the golden ratio.…

— Alexey Stakhov

“Kepler followed Proclus and believed that 'the main goal of Euclid was to build a geometric theory of the so-called Platonic solids.' Kepler was…

— C. Smoryński

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

It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a…

— Bertrand Russell

And Numenius, the Pythagorean philosopher, expressly writes: 'For what is Plato, but Moses speaking in Attic Greek.'

— Clement of Alexandria

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

— Thomas Browne