Quote by Jostein Gaarder Download Open image ““Plato found mathematics very absorbing because mathematical states never change.”” — Jostein Gaarder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Plato had one Big Idea from which everything else derived. He fundamentally defined reality as that which is permanent and unchanging. Only ideas are… — Norman F. Cantor Copy Share Image
“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
And believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with the mathematical sciences, which… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Remember your Plato, Maeve. ‘If a man, fixing his attention on these and the like difficulties, does away with the idea of things and… — Elizabeth Cunningham Copy Share Image
There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis. — Francois Viete Copy Share Image
“Once you found the math in a thing, you knew everything about it, and you could manipulate it to your heart’s content with nothing… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
“He loved numbers, their patterns and secrets, the way something complex could be reduced to something simple. In mathematics, unlike life, there was always… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Mathematics effectively began when a few Greek friends got together to talk about numbers and lines and angles.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Most scientists and mathematicians operate as if Platonism is true regardless of whether they believe that it is. That is, they work as though… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
“According to Plato, a hierarchy of being and a hierarchy of knowledge exist, knowledge of ideas rests at the top, while at the bottom… — Tomáš Sedláček Copy Share Image
“The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it and he delights in it… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“A man didn’t specialize in mathematics because he had a rare talent for human relationships.” — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
“I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Po haljini sam mogao da vidim kako njeno telo diše, jer se haljina dizala i spuštala, dizala i spuštala, skoro kao da morski talasi… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." I don't want… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Sophie left the den and wandered about in the large garden. She tried to forget what she had learned at school, especially in science… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
