Ancient Egyptian priests: "These sacred structures can only be measured through divine intervention!"
Thales: *casually uses a stick and shadow to calculate pyramid height* "Geometry, my dudes."
This is why the ancient Greeks were unbearable at parties. While everyone else was busy worshiping sun gods, Thales was out there proving you could solve mysteries with triangles instead of mysticism. The original "work smarter not harder" guy who ruined magic with math.