"[T]he religious revival... suggested the view that philosophy was above all a "way of life." Science too was a "purif…"

"Ionian philosophers... had sought to identify a first principle for all things. Thales had thought to find this in wa…"

"If someone associates with a true Pythagorean, what will he will get from him, and in what quantity? I would say: sta…"

"Discovery attends on every quest, Except for renegades who shirk the toil. Now certain men have pushed discovery Into…"

"Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world."

"It seems to me that they do well to study mathematics, and it is not at all strange that they have correct knowledge …"

"It has fallen to the lot of one people, the ancient Greeks, to endow human thought with two outlooks on the universe …"

"The Pythagorean mathematical concepts, abstracted from sense impressions of nature, were... projected into nature and…"

"The attitude of Aristotelian physics toward lawfulness takes a new direction. ...The highest degree of lawfulness, be…"

"[T]he authority of Anaximenes was so great that both Leukippos and Demokritos adhered to his theory of a disc-like ea…"