Morris Kline (1908–1992) American mathematician
Source: Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (1972), p. 175
“Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.”
— Aristotle, book Generation of Animals
Book I, 715b.15
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Context: Things... are some of them continuous... which are properly and peculiarly called 'magnitudes'; others are discontinuous, in a side-by-side arrangement, and, as it were, in heaps, which are called 'multitudes,' a flock, for instance, a people, a heap, a chorus, and the like.
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