Christian Thomas Kohl The Metaphysical Foundations of Buddhism and Modern Science

Undoubtedly the world then lost picturesqueness. For prophets were
superseded by professors. In other words, as the movement has
penetrated into habits of thought, intuitive conviction has wilted in the
face of criticism. But amid all the limitations of humanity, wandering
dazed in the abundant universe, knowledge has reconditioned human life,
and has made possible that virtue which requires such measure of
intellectual analysis.
Between them, Plato and Aristotle succeed in illustrating the chief
connections between science and philosophy. The emphasis of science is
upon observation of particular occurences, and upon inductive
generalization, issuing in wide classifications of things according to their
modes of functioning, in other words according to the laws of nature
which they illustrate. The emphasis of philosophy is upon generalizations
which almost fail to classify by reason of their universal application. For
example, all things are involved in the creative advance of the Universe,
that is, in the general temporality which affects all things, even if at all
times they remain self-identical. Thus the consideration of weight led
Aristotle to his four-fold classification.
Now Plato had already emphasized the importance of this Aristotelian
notion of classification, that is to say, of 'division' as he called it.
Perhaps indeed he invented the method. It would have been quite in