sounds like "ageometretos
medeis eisito"
freely translated: "Let no-one without
knowledge of geometry enter"
according to tradition this text
was displayed in the
entrance of Plato's Academy.
Nicolaus Copernicus choose
to print it on the cover
page of the book De Revolutionibus, his lifetime
work.
an Isaac Newton's assistant
claimed that, in five years,
he recalled the professor laugh only once: when asked
¿ what use it was to study Euclid's geometry
?
"..upon which Sir Isaac was very merry"
so I guess geometry is important.