It would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never occurred to his mind. Yet, when he stated the fifth postulate, he stood at the parting of the ways. His subconscious prescience is astounding. There is nothing comperable to it in the whole history of science.
George SartonThere are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.
George SartonIt would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never occurred to his mind. Yet, when he stated the fifth postulate, he stood at the parting of the ways. His subconscious prescience is astounding. There is nothing comperable to it in the whole history of science.
George SartonThe most malicious kind of hatred is that which is built upon a theological foundation.
George SartonThe darkness, of which the historians complain, is essentially the darkness of their own ignorance.
George Sarton