"It seems to me that they do well to study mathematics, and it is not at all strange that they have correct knowledge about each thing, what it is. For if they knew rightly the nature of the whole, they were also likely to see well what is the nature of the parts. About geometry, indeed, and arithmetic and astronomy, they have handed us down a clear understanding, and not least also about music. For these seem to be sister sciences; for they deal with sister subjects, the first two forms of being."
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Archytas of Tarentum, On Harmony (ca. 400 BC) as quoted in Nicomachus of Gerasa: Introduction to Arithmetic (ca. 100 AD) Tr. (1926)
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