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There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.
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- Aristotle Excerpt from /t/mathematics (February 13, 2012)

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied mathematics.

- Aristotle Excerpt from /t/mathematics (February 13, 2012)
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The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.

- Aristotle Excerpt from Metaphysics (February 13, 2012)
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The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.

- Aristotle Excerpt from Metaphysics (February 13, 2012)
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The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things.

- Aristotle Excerpt from Metaphysics (February 13, 2012)
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Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure necessary for disinterested research.

- Aristotle Excerpt from Metaphysics (February 13, 2012)
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Hence when all such inventions were already established, the sciences which do not aim at giving pleasure or at the necessities of life were discovered, and first in the places where men first began to have leisure. This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure.

- Aristotle Excerpt from Metaphysics (February 13, 2012)
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