>>12499220Many scientists have been inspired by the wisdom of ancient Greek philosophy (also by ancient Indian philosophy, to be fair, but I'm less familiar with that one), unlike the meme scientists of today who seem to shit on everything that isn't accompanied by ugly graphs and data sets.
Ancient Greek mathematics is also the oldest science known to us (it seems that the notion of a deductive proof originated with Thales of Miletus and it was unknown to Egyptians and Mesopotamians who relied on heuristic arguments in their mathematics) and it can be of some pedagogical utility to study ancient Greek mathematics. It is said that Isaac Newton dismissed Euclid's Elements because most propositions of the first book seemed to him completely "obvious" and not worthy of proof, and thus he devoted himself to the study of Descartes' Geometry instead, but Isaac Barrow (Newton's teacher) reproached him and advised him to study Euclid thoroughly. Newton did so and he acknowledge that he was indebted to Barrow for having made him give Euclid a second chance. Indeed he wrote the Principia using the methods of synthetic geometry favored by the Greeks instead of the more modern analytic geometry of Descartes.
