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Eli Maor
(4 Oct 1937 - )
mathematician who writes books on mathematics, geometry and the world of numbers in which he examines their cultural impact on the arts and sciences. He has also written articles about astronomy, his amateur passion.
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Science Quotes by Eli Maor (1 quote)
The Biblical value of pi, by comparison, is exactly three, as is clear from a verse in 1 Kings vii 23: 'and he made a molten sea, ten cubits from brim to brim, and his height was five cubit; and a line of thirty cubits did encompass him round about.'
— Eli Maor
From To Infinity and Beyond (1991), 4.
At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes--an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense. -- Carl Sagan
