Driven Quote by Leon M. Lederman

“It is a bizarre, but nevertheless psychologically exact, fact that the physics of the Greeks — being statics and not dynamics — neither knew…

— Oswald Spengler

“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 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

I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks.

— Jorge Luis Borges

The physical doctrine of the atom has got into a state which is strongly suggestive of the epicycles of astronomy before Copernicus .

— Alfred North Whitehead

How then did we come to the "standard model"? And how has it supplanted other theories, like the steady state model? It is a…

— Steven Weinberg

“Greece was merely the laboratory where these failed policies were being tested and developed before their implementation everywhere across Europe.”

— Yanis Varoufakis

Many theories of the ancient world seem terribly childish today, a hodge-podge of fables and false comparisons.But our theories will seem childish five-hundred years…

— Jacob Bronowski

“...unless our standards of civilization are comfort and contraptions, Athens from (say) 480 to 380 was clearly the most civilized society that has yet existed.”

— H.D.F. Kitto

Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.

— W. H. Auden

At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller…

— Svante Arrhenius

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

— Oscar Wilde