Pythagorean Quotes


You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law. - Desiderius Erasmus



There is no answer to the Pythagorean theorem. Well, there is an answer, but by the time you figure it out, I got 40 points, 10 rebounds and then we're planning for the parade. - Shaquille O'Neal



The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things. - Aristotle



The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants. - Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola



The Pythagorean, as well as the Platonic philosophers, probably concurred in the fabrication of the Christian Trinity. - John Adams



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. - Shaquille O'Neal



Our offense is like the pythagorean theorem: There is no answer! - Shaquille O'Neal



Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred. - Arthur Koestler



I would rather err with Plato than think rightly with these (Pythagoreans) - Marcus Tullius Cicero



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