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Pythagoras

lunar impact crater

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Pythagoras

lunar impact crater

Not who you're looking for? Others named Pythagoras: Greek philosopher and mathematician (c. 570 – c. 495 BC) · Roman freedman · ancient Greek sculptor of Samos

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Pythagoras is a prominent impact crater located near the northwestern limb of the Moon. T. W. Webb described it as "the deepest walled plain" in this quadrant of the visible Moon. It lies just to the northwest of the somewhat larger Babbage. The crater has an oval appearance due to the oblique viewing angle. Only the western face of the interior can be viewed from the Earth, the other side being permanently out of sight.

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Notable quotes

“By the air which I breathe, and by the water which I drink, I will not endure to be blamed on account of this discourse.”
— As reported by Heraclides Ponticus (c. 360 BC), and Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 6, in the translation of C. D. Yonge (1853)
“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”
— As quoted in The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors (1853) by Everard Berkeley
“Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men.”
— As quoted in Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists‎ (2007) by James Geary
“Above and before all things, worship GOD!”
— As quoted in The Sayings of the Wise: Or, Food for Thought: A Book of Moral Wisdom, Gathered from the Ancient Philosophers (1555) by William Baldwin [1908 edition]
“It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.”
— "Pythagorean Ethical Sentences From Stobæus" (1904)
“None can be free who is a slave to, and ruled by, his passions.”
— As quoted in Florilegium, XVIII, 23, as translated in Dictionary of Quotations (1906) by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, p. 368

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