““Aristotle's later view of the relationship between mathematics and Nature could not have been more different. He wanted to rescue physical science from the mathematical stranglehold that Plato had placed upon it. He believed there to exist three completely autonomous realms of purely theoretical knowledge-metaphysics, mathematics, and physics-each possessing its own methods of explanation and accordant subject matter. But over-arching these divisions there existed a more general principle of 'homogeneity'-that like follows like-which mush always be obeyed:””
