Essentials Quote by James Mark Baldwin

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

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

— Truth Devour

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

It is impossible to decide whether a particular detail of the Pythagorean universe was the work of the master, or filled in by a…

— Arthur Koestler

The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the…

— Aristotle

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

— Vanna Bonta

The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

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

— Neil Postman

The profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discovery.

— Joseph Fourier

. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind.

— Baruch Spinoza

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

The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science,…

— Dan Brown