“I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as the wonderful form of cosmic order expressed by the "Law of Frequency of Error." The law would have been personified by the Greeks and deified, if they had known of it. It reigns with serenity and in complete self-effacement, amidst the wildest confusion. The huger the mob, and the greater the apparent anarchy, the more perfect is its sway. It is the supreme law of Unreason.” IfsKnowsHas BeensSelfFormLawOrderImaginationPerfectKnownGreaterWonderfulMathematicsErrorsMathSupremeConfusionMathematicalGreekAnarchyCosmicSerenityImpressReignFrequency Author:Francis Galton
“The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.” LanguagePerfectWonderfulIndiaStructureGreekLatinHinduismRefinedAntiquitySanskrit Author:William Jones
“All the wonders of the Greek civilization heaped together are less wonderful than the single book of Psalms. Greece had all that this world could give her; but the flowers of Paradise blossomed in Palestine alone.” WorldGivingBookTogetherWonderWonderfulThis WorldFlowerCivilizationGreekParadisePalestineGreecePsalmsBook Of PsalmsGreek Civilization Author:William E. Gladstone
“The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilization, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.” PeopleLittlesNationsWonderfulWrittenCivilizationEuropeDirectWesternFormerGreekSavagesSuperiorityInheritanceSummitOld Greek Book:Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Source: Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex