Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (Byron) was an English mathematician. She was born on December 10, 1815, in London, England.
Lord Byron was Ada's father. Anne Isabella Milbanke was her mother.
Ada Lovelace was known as the first programmer in history. Also, she was interested in engineering and writing.
William King-Noel, 1st Earl of Lovelace, was Ada Byron's husband. They had children.
Ada Lovelace died on November 27, 1852, in London, England.
Herodotus.
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“Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks”
“If a man insisted on always being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”
“The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.”
Marie Curie.
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“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
“I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
“There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.”
“One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.”
“I am among those who think that science has great beauty.”
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https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/marie-curie-quotes
Ada Lovelace.
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“If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me "poetical science"?”
“I am in a charming state of confusion.”
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform.”
“What is imagination?... It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.”
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/3950749.Ada_Lovelace
Leucippus (Λεύκιππος) (Leúkippos) was a philosopher in Ancient Greece. He was born in 5th century BCE.
Leucippus studied atomism. Also, he was interested in metaphysics.
Democritus (Δημόκριτος ) (Dēmókritos) was a student of Leucippus.
Strabo (Στράβων) (Strábōn) was born in 64 or 63 BC, in Amasya, Pontus.
He was an ancient Greek geographer. Strabo lived in Asia Minor.
The Geographica or Geography (Γεωγραφικά) (Geōgraphiká) was his famous work.
Strabo died in c. Ad 24, in Roman Empire.
Leon Battista Alberti was an Italian scientist, artist, writer, philosopher, and architect.
He was born on February 14, 1404, in Genoa, Italy.
Alberti's movement was in Italian Renaissance.
He had his own notable works.
Leon Battista Alberti died on April 25, 1472, in Rome, Italy.
Johannes Kepler.
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“Nature uses as little as possible of anything.”
“I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.”
“Planets move in ellipses with the Sun at one focus.”
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https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/johannes-kepler-quotes
Claudius Ptolemy (Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος) (Claudius Ptolemaeus) was a scientist. He studied different fields, such as: mathematics, astronomy, astrology (ἀστρολογία), geography.
Ptolemy was born in Egypt, Roman Empire, c. 100 AD.
Claudius Ptolemy influenced science and scientists.
He died in Alexandria, Egypt, Roman Empire, c. 170 AD.
Giordano Bruno was an Italian scientist and philosopher. He was born in 1548, in Italy.
Bruno’s era was Renaissance.
He studied space and our Solar System.
Giordano Bruno died on February 17, 1600, in Rome.
Ptolemy.
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“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”
“Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.”
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/245826.Ptolemy#:~:text=%E2%80%9CMortal%20as%20I%20am%2C%20I,no%20longer%20touch%20the%20earth.%E2%80%9D&text=born%20for%20a%20day.,-But%20when%20I
Arthur Schopenhauer was known as a German philosopher. He was born on February 22, 1788, in Gdańsk, Poland. His parents were Heinrich Floris and Johanna Schopenhauer.
Arthur Schopenhauer studied in several universities.
He was interested in ethics, psychology, morality, metaphysics, and aesthetics.
Schopenhauer had his own ideas.
He died on September 21, 1860, in Frankfurt, Germany.
Giordano Bruno.
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“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
“I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.”
“The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.”
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Blaise Pascal.
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“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
“In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.”
“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”
“Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
“To understand is to forgive.”
“The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.”
Source of information:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10994.Blaise_Pascal and https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10994.Blaise_Pascal?page=2
Thales.
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“Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.”
“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”
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Archimedes of Syracuse (Ἀρχιμήδης;) was a Greek scientist. He was interested in mathematics (μᾰθημᾰτικά), geometry (γεωμετρία,), astronomy (ἀστρονομία), engineering, philosophy, and physics (φυσική).
Archimedes was born on c. 287 B. C., in Sicily. Also, he lived there. Archimedes studied in Alexandria.
This scientist made many important things for science in ancient Greece. There is the Archimedes' principle "Any object, totally or partially immersed in a fluid or liquid, is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object." There is a formula bout this principle.
Archimedes said "Eureka!" when he understood it.
"Give me a lever and a place to stand, and i'll move the world" (δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω) his quote, too.
Archimedes created different scientific writings.
He died on c. 212 B. C., in Sicily.
Archimedes.
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“Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.”
“Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.”
“He who knows how to speak, knows also when.”
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https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/661188.Archimedes#:~:text=%E2%80%9CGive%20me%20a%20place%20to,I%20will%20move%20the%20earth.%E2%80%9D&text=%E2%80%9CGive%20me%20but%20a%20firm,I%20shall%20move%20the%20earth.%E2%80%9D&text=%E2%80%9CGive%20me%20a%20place%20to%20stand%2C%20and%20a%20lever%20long,I%20will%20move%20the%20world.%20%E2%80%9D&text=%E2%80%9CGive%20me%20a%20lever%20long,I%20shall%20move%20the%20world.%20%E2%80%9D
Euclid (Εὐκλείδης) was a mathematician in ancient Greece. Euclid of Alexandria was born in mid-4th century BC.
Also, he was known as the "father of geometry". Because Euclid made many things for this science.
He lived in Alexandria. Euclid created many different works about mathematics, algebra, and geometry. There is Euclidean geometry.
Now Euclid's works studied in schools and universities.
Euclid, the Greek mathematician died in mid-3rd century BC.
