"As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry……" — Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
"As astronomy is the daughter of idleness, geometry is the daughter of property."
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- For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto… — Francis Bacon
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- Science only means knowledge; and for [Greek] ancients it did only mean knowledge. Thus the favorite science of the Greeks… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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