Nature is an invention of the Greeks. It consists in classifying data, and when they have classified a lot of data they call it nature. But that is a study that I am doing with Bob Logan on the effects of the alphabet on Greek science.
Carl Scharfe interview (1976), transcript p 1
Year: 1976
Chapter:
Classification
Compiled by William Kuhns
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