That’s fascinating! Do you have a FR link to that specific statement?
It is true that Greeks were at the time not very advanced in certain disciplines such as mathematics. For example, they were still using alphabets for numbers, unlike Babylonians who had discovered 0 ... and am not talking about 0bama ;-)
Check out this thread for that sort of thing: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1964051/posts
There are more, but given that thread you can probably find the rest of them.