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justinian

 From what I understand (which could be wrong), the greatest cultural achievement of Medieval Arab Muslims wasn’t the preservation of Greek texts, but synthesizing the best observations of Greek and Indian math, expanding on them, and spreading them.
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Anonymous 18w

The greatest minds build on what other great minds have done before them

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Anonymous 18w

Good quote, but Newton was an asshole even for the time.

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