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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.

Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer!

That is why one day I said my game will be like the Pythagorean Theorem - hard to figure out. A lot of people really don't know the Pythagorean Theory. They don't make them like me anymore. They don't want to make them like that anymore.

Mathematical discoveries, like springtime violets in the woods, have their season which no man can hasten or retard.

In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.

There was a time when a man was so convinced that the world was round that he was determined to prove it.

Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.

It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.