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Proclus
(410 - 17 Apr 485)
Greek mathematician.
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Science Quotes by Proclus (2)
This therefore is Mathematics:
She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul;
She gives life to her own discoveries;
She awakens the mind and purifies the intellect;
She brings light to our intrinsic ideas;
She abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth...
She reminds you of the invisible forms of the soul;
She gives life to her own discoveries;
She awakens the mind and purifies the intellect;
She brings light to our intrinsic ideas;
She abolishes oblivion and ignorance which are ours by birth...
— Proclus
Quoted in Benjamin Franklin Finkel, Mathematical Association of America, The American Mathematical Monthly (1947), Vol. 54, 425.
See also: | Abolish (2) | Discovery (166) | Idea (83) | Ignorance (62) | Intellect (47) | Invisible (3) | Life (155) | Mathematics (221) | Mind (116) | Oblivion (3) | Soul (16)
Wherever there is number, there is beauty.
— Proclus
Quoted in Morris Kline, Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (1990), Vol. 1, 131.
