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Confucius
(27 Aug 551 B.C. - 21 Nov 479 B.C.)
Chinese philosopher who taught ethics, emphasizing that rulers exist to secure happiness of their subjects, and that the family provides the model for all social relationships. Although he made no significant scientific discoveries of his own, his philosophies and beliefs were a foundation from which grew the early Chinese mathematical and scientific traditions.
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Science Quotes by Confucius (1)
Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.
— Confucius
In Samuel Arthur Bent, Short Sayings of Great Men (1882), 159
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