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Quotation from On the Heavens by Aristotle
“the least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold”
On the Heavens, Book I, Part 5, trans. J. L. Stocks (1922)
Aristotle explains why the question of an infinite body matters so much: a mistaken first principle, like the atomists' minimum magnitude, distorts everything built on it.
Citation: "the least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold" — Aristotle, On the Heavens, Book I, Part 5, trans. J. L. Stocks (1922). (id aristotle-on-the-heavens-q1)
