Plato Math Quotes & Sayings

There still remain three studies suitable for free man. Arithmetic is one of them. — Plato

He who can properly define and divide is to be considered a god. — Plato

He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side. — Plato

God forever geometrizes. — Plato

Respecting infinite sets, for example, Intuitionism is rabidly anti-Cantor and Formalism staunchly pro-Cantor, even though both Formalism and Intuitionism are anti-Plato and Cantor is a diehard Platonist. Which, migrainous or not, means we're back to metaphysics: the modern wrangle over math's procedures is ultimately a dispute over the ontological status of math entities. — David Foster Wallace

The highest form of pure thought is in mathematics. — Plato

Mathematics is like draughts in being suitable for the young, not too difficult, amusing, and without peril to the state. — Plato

I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language. — Werner Heisenberg

Geometry existed before creation. — Plato

Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself. — Plato