“There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacings of the spheres.”

— Pythagoras

As quoted in the preface of the book entitled Music of the Spheres by Guy Murchie (1961)
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ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher -585–-495 BC

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