"Now that practical skills have developed enough..." - Quote by Aristotle
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.
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“You should never think without an image.”
“He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.”
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More on Mathematics
“I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.”
“The merit of painting lies in the exactness of reproduction. Painting is a science and all sciences are based on mathematics. No human inquiry can be a science unless it pursues its path through mathematical exposition and demonstration.”
“No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.”