Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
Hypatia Quotes
Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
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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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