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"Much learning does not teach wisdom; otherwise it would have taught Hesiod and Pythagoras, and again Xenophanes and Hecataeus."

January 1, 1970

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Mystics Philosophers from Greece Mathematicians from Greece Founders of religions Presocratic philosophers

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Heraclitus (c. 500 BC) as quoted by Sir Thomas Little Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics, Vol. 1, p.65, citing Diog. L. ix. 1 (Fr. 40 in Vorsokratiker i3, p. 86. 1-3).

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Heraclitus (c. 500 BC) as quoted by Sir Thomas Little Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics, Vol. 1, p.65, citing Diog. L. ix. 1 (Fr. 40 in Vorsokratiker i3, p. 86. 1-3).