Gains Quote by Isaac Asimov

Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true…

— G. M. Trevelyan

A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

— Edward Gibbon

Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him ; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing…

— Mary Everest Boole

So then there was the Greek, Socrates, he was great... He invented questioning. Before Socrates, no questioning. Everyone sort of went, ''Yeah, I suppose…

— Eddie Izzard

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others.

— Joseph Priestley

Socrates thought and so do I that the wisest theory about the gods is no theory at all.

— Michel de Montaigne

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all, and thus…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The Greeks, meanwhile, explicitly rejected zero. Since their mathematical system was based on geometry, numbers had to represent space of one sort or another—length,…

— Chris Anderson

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient…

— George Sarton

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

— Hosea Ballou