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His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.
Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave, Who bidd'st the mighty ocean deep, Its own appointed limits keep; Oh, hear us when we cry to Thee, For those in peril on the sea.
He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.
Inscribed on the temple of Apollo
Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest.
Who has reached the extreme limits of scale with the same infallible precision, equally guarded against the false refinement of artificial elegance and the roughness of spurious force? Who has better known how to breathe anguish and dread into the purest and most exquisite forms?
Philo of Alexandria,
The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.
From Themistocles began the saying, He is a second Hercules.
The zenith of the peak of mountains has to be balanced by the nadir of the depth of the seas.
Eratosthenes's only tools were sticks, eyes, feet, and brains; plus a zest for experiment. With those tools he correctly deduced the circumference of the Earth, to high precision, with an error of only a few percent. That's pretty good figuring for 2200 years ago.
There is another capital beneath the waves, She plunged ten thousand fathoms beneath the sea.
God, eldest of Poets.
There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.
The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses ...
Aeschylus was the poet of a new era. He bridged the tremendous gulf between the poetry of the beauty of the outside world and the poetry of the beauty of the pain of the world. He
that's me. ancient history."
[Poseidon to Paul]
The greater the monument, the greater the man. The stone the Greeks quarry for his grave is huge and white, stretching up to the sky. A C H I L L E S, it reads. It will stand for him, and speak to all who pass: he lived and died, and lives again in memory.
stole the ambrosia of the gods and was cursed by Zeus to be trapped forever between a bountiful fruit tree and a pool of water. Whenever he tries to eat, the branches rise away. When he tries to drink, the water recedes. It's the source of the English word tantalize.
What sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination
Pliny ... makes the statement, and for untrustworthiness of statement he cannot easily be surpassed.
As above, so below. As within, so without. - The Emerald Tablet, circa 3000 BC
How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.
Democritus (460-360 B.C.) - in reality there is nothing but atoms and space.
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.
There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.
He was smooth water - effortless in refinement but just like still water, dangerous if you couldn't swim.
The ancient Egyptians believed the god Anubis met each of us on the other side, and that he stood before a great scale on which our hearts were set. There each was weighed, tested, for its worth.
Was this the heart I wanted measured?
The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.
I am Poseidon, EARTH SHAKER, RULER OF THE BOUNDLESS SEA, CREATOR OF STORMS, SWALLOWER OF SHIPS
It is said that he was the first of Men to reach the Great Sea, and that none, save the Eldar, have ever felt more deeply the longing that it brings.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
It seems to us unwise to have insisted on teaching geometry to the younger Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse, in order to make him a good king, but from Plato's point of view it was essential. He was sufficiently Pythagorean to think that without mathematics no true wisdom is possible.
The wisdom of the ancients.
Plutus himself,
That knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,
Hath not in nature's mystery more science
Than I have in this ring.
How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.
In these days of conflict between ancient and modern studies, there must surely be something to be said for a study which did not begin with Pythagoras, and will not end with Einstein, but is the oldest and the youngest of all.
Aziraphale. The Enemy, of course. But an enemy for six thousand years now, which made him a sort of friend.
I'm not in control and without a firm spot, like Archimedes I can't move the world - let alone your heart..
The ancient Romans had a tradition: whenever one of their engineers constructed an arch, as the capstone was hoisted into place, the engineer assumed accountability for his work in the most profound way possible: he stood under the arch.
I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
Whose fine idea had it been, on the Olympian heights or deep in the bowel-dark underworld, to condemn us to the messy, intractable burden of bodies, the sheer tedium of our confinement in the flesh?
My mathematics is helpless against the sea.
No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.
The Eagle, he was lord above
Eureka! Eureka!
Supposed to have been his cry, jumping naked from his bath and running in the streets, excited by a discovery about water displacement to solve a problem about the purity of a gold crown.
Everything flows, nothing stands still.
Heraclitus, 501 B.C.
Let us lie down once more by the breathing side
Of Ocean, where our live forefathers sleep
As if the Known Sea still were a month wide
Atlantis howls but is no longer steep!
Polybius more than 150 years earlier,
Man is the measure of all things
She is made up of depths even the ocean couldn't fathom.
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
Poseidon's underpants! You can't be serious.
As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.
He invented a machine for reading underwater and nearly drowned in the bath because it worked.
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.
The trident of Neptune is the sceptre of the world.
Were I so tall as to reach the pole or grasp the ocean at a span, I must be measured by my soul. The mind is the standard of the man.
Icarus flew too close to the sun, but at least he flew.
Socrates ... Whom well inspir'd the oracle pronounc'd Wisest of men.
There are men and gods, and beings like Pythagoras.
Fifty Aristotle's equals one King Solomon.
Struck in the wet mire
Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city
I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.
Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades.
He had been trying to measure the distance between the earth and God.
Periplus of the Erythrean Sea, written
16 "Have you entered into the springs of the sea Or walked in the recesses of the deep?
The ocean is the last frontier of human empirical knowledge; even the contours on that eighth-grader's globe are the product of a mix of scientific measurement, inference and conjecture.
I try to think of metaphors that suit him best, but he was made of the sea and the stars and the sun, and one wouldn't do him justice.
the force of the water drop that hollows the stone. A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules.
Saul of Tarsus on the Damascene road.
Oh! the metempsychosis! Oh! Pythagoras, that in bright Greece, two thousand years ago, did die, so good, so wise, so mild; I sailed with thee along the Peruvian coast last voyage - and, foolish as I am, taught thee, a green simple boy, how to splice a rope.
If the hero is not a person, the emblem
Of him, even if Xenophon, seems
To stand taller than a person stands, has
A wider brow, large and less human
Eyes and bruted ears: the man-like body
Of a primitive.
The Stone the Builders Rejected.
There before me, staring back from bottomless blackness, was I without my self. On all fours, I stared into my eyes. I came closer, and we kissed. Who knows me best? I am only water.
For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.
The young king, bright with such gold as is not found in any mine, strode across the waves; and the glory of him was such that he who looked on it should never look upon another.
God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.
The Person is a bubble on Time's sea.
Before men ever wrote in clay they cast their words in verse and line, rythymbound in poets' minds, defying time and age.
When skies above were not yet named
Nor earth below pronounced by name
There was water ...
A bottomless abyss exists in every inch
All those things that are now field to be of the greatest antiquity were at one time new; what we to-day hold up by example will rank hereafter as precedent.
I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the perfect models of Phidias. They had daily before their eyes the highest types of Beauty which the world has ever produced; for of all things that are beautiful, the human body is the crown.
Euripides questioned everything. He was a misanthrope who preferred books to men.
I know what the Greeks do not know, incertitude.
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis.
Fishes, that things in general were settled for ever. It was the year of Our Lord one thousand seven
It seems to me that all the evidence points to Apollonius as the founder of Greek mathematical astronomy.
Argos the greatest tragedy in Greek legend was
Dionysus the god of drinking so hard you wake up with TWO hangovers and then they FIGHT.
(whose initials were probably OCTAVIAN).
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
Our highest intelligence is deep water flowing into the shallows
David and fell on his face and did obeisance. David
Prometheus. The truth unknown to man is the madness of him who proclaims it. Proceed, and have done.
Pre-Cambrian Memory.
Lord of hosts! When I swim in the merciful waters of your grace I find that I can neither plumb nor measure the depths.
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 more intimate associates, which may be inferred both from his birth, and his versatile wisdom.