Quotes by : Rebecca Goldstein

Paraphrasing Plato's Republic: "Only people who have allowed themselves to be reformed by reality have....

The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.

Kleos is sometimes translated as "acoustic renown" the spreading renown you get from people talking about....

When you didn't force yourself to think in formal reconstructions, when you didn't catch these moments....

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.....

What is it precisely, that they are doing when they are doing science. Are they refining their instruments....

It baffled me how people could resist math's gorgeousness, but people did, and people do. The fine of....

I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm....

For the ancient Greeks, who lacked our social media, the only way to achieve mass duplication of the....

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is....