You throw out that Donovan McNabb is starting the game with a 95.2 quarterback rating and expect people to understand it, ... There's not a human being alive who could really explain to you what quarterback ratings mean. Pythagoras couldn't, either. I shouldn't need a compass and protractor to rate these guys.
Quotes about pythagoras (12 Quotes)
About Thomas Hobbes He was 40 years old before he looked on geometry which happened accidentally. Being in a gentleman's library, Euclid's Elements lay open, and 'twas the 47 El. libri I' Pythagoras' Theorem. He read the proposition 'By God', sayd he, 'this is impossible' So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition which proposition he read. That referred him back to another, which he also read. Et sic deinceps, that at last he was demonstratively convinced of that truth. This made him in love with geometry.
Pythagoras, when he was asked what time it was, answered that it was the soul of this world.
It was modesty which in Greece invented the word philosopher and left the splendid arrogance of calling oneself wise to the actors of the spirit --the modesty of such monsters of pride and self-glorification as Pythagoras, as Plato.
Is it so bad to be misunderstood Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.
Pythagoras took the next important step by subordinating the mere matter of nature to its essential principle of form and order, identifying the latter with reason or the soul.
If 'Number rules the universe' as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.
Golden Verses So-called because they are 'good as gold.' They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but always go under the name of Pythagoras, and seem quite in accordance with the excellent precepts of that philosopher. They are as follows Ne'er suffer sleep thine eyes to close Before thy mind hath run O'er every act, and thought, and word, From dawn to set of sun For wrong take shame, but grateful feel If just thy course hath been Such effort day by day renewed Will ward thy soul from sin. E. C. B.
I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, - astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It is very important to note that some 2,500 years ago at the least Pythagoras went from Samos to the Ganges to learn geometry... But he would certainly not have undertaken such a strange journey had the reputation of the Brahmins' science not been long established in Europe.
The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.
Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.