Talk:Hints/@comment-24.235.150.210-20150228165808/@comment-25931106-20150324210340

@SamuraiSanada5628 Because in ancient Greece at that time, if you were smart and wise, you were considered not only as mathematician, phyicist, speaker etc, but primarily as philosopher ("a man who seeks wisdom" or "wisdom belover" in Greek), because back then all who sought wisdom, tried to actually explain how the world made and all science they created was only a tool for describing the world, which was more important to them then actual discoveries. For example, Pythagoras actually believed that the numbers are the keys to understand everything and represent the order of the world (that was why he won't admit existance of irrational numbers, such as square roots and pi, because they are were unpredictable and presented the chaos).