Hippasus of Metapontum Quotes on Truth
Hippasus of Metapontum was a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher and Pythagorean of the early fifth century BC, traditionally credited or, in the less friendly versions of the story, blamed for the discovery that the diagonal of the unit square is incommensurable with its side. This page collects quotes attributed to Hippasus of Metapontum on the topic of truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Hippasus of Metapontum:
“The diagonal of the square is not commensurable with its side.”
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Attributed to Hippasus of Metapontum:
“All things are number, but not all numbers are whole.”
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Attributed to Hippasus of Metapontum:
“Music is the audible image of number.”
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Attributed to Hippasus of Metapontum:
“What cannot be expressed by ratios still belongs to nature.”
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Attributed to Hippasus of Metapontum:
“The cosmos hides depths that even mathematicians fear to face.”