QuoteQuest“The science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be.”
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The science which has to do with nature clearly concerns itself for the most part with bodies and magnitudes and their properties and movements, but also with the principles of this sort of substance, as many as they may be. Citation: On the Heavens Book I, pg. 1 (350 BCE) Listed on https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotle (CC BY-SA)Read evidence
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