The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity, the idea of pure science. Geometry became one of the most powerful expressions of that sovereignty of the intellect that inspired the thought of those times. At a later epoch, when the intellectual despotism of the Church, which had been maintained through the Middle Ages, had crumbled, and a wave of scepticism threatened to sweep away all that had seemed most fixed, those who believed in Truth clung to Geometry as to a rock, and it was the highest ideal of every scientist to carry on his science 'more geometrico.

...we can endure neither our vices nor the remedies needed to cure them.

You have not studied the histories of ancient times, and perhaps know not the life that breathes in them; a soul of beauty and wisdom which had penetrated my heart of hearts.

I came to the Greeks early, and I found answers in them. Greece's great men let all their acts turn on the immortality of the soul. We don't really act as if we believed in the soul's immortality and that's why we are where we are today.

I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote.

Had the Greeks held novelty in such disdain as we, what work of ancient date would now exist?

When eras die, their legacies Are left to strange police. Professors in New England guard The glory that was Greece.