"These thinkers seem to consider that number is the principle both as matter for things and as constituting their attributes and permanent states."
— Pythagoras

January 1, 1970

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Aristotle (c. 330 BC) as quoted by Sir Thomas Little Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics, Vol. 1, p.67, citing Metaph. A. 5, 986 a 16.