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Aeschylus
(c. 525 B.C. - c. 456 B.C.)
Greek playwright who is known as the founder of Greek tragedy drama. Only seven of his ninety plays have survived.
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Science Quotes by Aeschylus (1)
Learning is ever in the freshness of its youth, even for the old.
— Aeschylus
Agamemnon, 584. In John Bartlett, Familar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs (1891), 695.
Quotes by others about Aeschylus (1)
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
In A Mathematician's Apology (1940, reprint with Foreward by C.P. Snow 1992), 81.
