"Nearly our entire intellectual education originates from the Greeks....Not only has their influence been passed on by those who took over from them in ancient and in modern times; our entire thinking, the logical categories in which it moves, the linguistic patterns it uses (being therefore dominate"
"If p, q, x are lengths which you delimit on the same string by supports, or just by the pressure of the finger as the violinist does, then x produces a tone 'in the middle' of those produced with p and q; the musical intervals from p to x and from x to q are the same."
"... It is the hypothesis that the display of nature can be understood. ...It is the non-spiritistic, the non-superstitious, the non-magical outlook."
"... David Hume's (1711-76) great discovery that the relation between cause and effect are not directly observable and enunciates nothing but a regular succession - this fundamental epistemological discovery has led the great physicists, Gustav Kirchhof (1824-87) and Ernst Mach (1838-1916), and other"