Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia Quotes
Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.
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| Nationality: | Greek |
| Profession: | Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher |
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Hypatia was born in Alexandria, Egypt. She was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and philosopher in Egypt, then a part of the Eastern Roman Empire. She was the only daughter of the mathematician Theon of Alexandria. She was educated in Athens. She was the head of the Neoplatonic school at Alexandria, where she taught philosophy and astronomy. Hypatia's most famous pupil was Synesius of Cyrene, who later became the Bishop of Ptolemy.
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