"[A]ll things which can be known have number; for it is not possible that without number anything can either be conceived or known."
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January 1, 1970

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Philolaus (c. 420 BCE) as quoted by Thomas Little Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (1921) Vol. 1, p. 67, citing (Stob Ecl. i. 21, 7b (Vors. i3, p. 310. 8-10)