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As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or scholarship candidates, but Fellows of another college. G. H. Hardy
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As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or scholarship candidates, but Fellows of another college. G. H. Hardy
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand… So Greek mathematics is ‘permanent’, more permanent even than Greek literature. G. H. Hardy
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood. Ezra Pound
The vast majority of Greeks accept the need for reform and want to keep our country inside the euro zone. Evangelos Venizelos
Those who have a lot of money in Greece invest in housing abroad. It’s all immoral. The Greek crisis is structural, but also political. Evangelos Venizelos
I’m drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think – I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don’t know if I could survive, like, Medea. Eva Mendes
Do not plan for ventures before finishing what’s at hand. Euripides
If we don’t understand how metaphor works we will misunderstand most of what we read in the Bible. No matter how carefully we parse our Hebrew and Greek sentences, no matter how precisely we use our dictionaries and trace our etymologies, no matter how exactly we define the words on the page, if we do … Read more
when I came to know Greek art I instantly understood that excess and perfection are enemies; yet on the other hand this world and the millions of worlds around us live by fire … ! Ethel Smyth
We need new art. Old art cannot do that. It can do lots of other things, and of course humanity hasn’t changed that much in the last thousand or two thousand years.So that the old Greek dramas are still at the very heart, core, of human experience, but still we need new stuff. Esa-Pekka Salonen