“Almost the whole of Greek science and philosophy begins with Thales.”
Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940) British civil servant and academic
Source: Achimedes (1920), Ch. II. Greek Geometry to Archimedes, p.8
“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”
— Will Durant, book The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy (1926)
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