#greeks

Greece is at a crucial crossroads. The choices that are made and the policies that are enforced will have a decisive impact on the wellbeing of Greeks. The way forward will not be easy but the problems can be solved, and will be solved, if there is unity, co-operation and consensus. ↗

— Lucas Papademos

#co-operation #consensus #crossroads #crucial #decisive

Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger. ↗

— Georgios A. Papandreou

#country #greeks #i #message #more

There are proofs that date back to the Greeks that are still valid today. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#date #greeks #proofs #still #today

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks. ↗

— Miriam Beard

#greeks #muses #only #professions #recently

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#citizen #every #free #free state #greeks

Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. ↗

— Robert Kennedy

#dedicate #gentle #greeks #let us #life

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#carried #first #french #grammar #greeks

The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#among #definition #enthusiasm #god #greeks

I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

#bed #big #book #collections #goes

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. ↗

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

#mathematicians #mathematics #nullity #numbers #zero