"All was numbers." (Pythagoras of Samos, cca. 6th century BC)
"Geometry is knowledge of the eternally existent." (Pythagoras of Samos, cca. 6th century BC)
"Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons." (Pythagoras of Samos, cca. 6th century BC)
"Number rules the universe." (Pythagoras of Samos, cca. 6th century BC)
"Number was the substance of all things." (Pythagoras of Samos, cca. 6th century BC)
"The learning of many things does not teach intelligence […]." (Pythagoras of Samos, cca. 6th century BC)
"There is geometry in the humming of the strings; there is music in the spacing of the spheres." (Pythagoras of Samos, cca. 6th century BC)
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