13 ideas
15970 | People generalise because it is easier to understand, and that is mistaken for deep philosophy [Feynman] |
472 | No things would be clear to us as entity or relationships unless there existed Number and its essence [Philolaus] |
22511 | Some reasonings are stronger than we are [Philolaus] |
6040 | There is no universal goal to human life [Aenesidemus, by Photius] |
473 | There is no falsehood in harmony and number, only in irrational things [Philolaus] |
1519 | Harmony must pre-exist the cosmos, to bring the dissimilar sources together [Philolaus] |
1518 | Everything must involve numbers, or it couldn't be thought about or known [Philolaus] |
469 | Existing things, and hence the Cosmos, are a mixture of the Limited and the Unlimited [Philolaus] |
9410 | Physical Laws are rhythms and patterns in nature, revealed by analysis [Feynman] |
476 | Self-created numbers make the universe stable [Philolaus] |
18530 | Nobody understands quantum mechanics [Feynman] |
17707 | We should regard space as made up of many tiny pieces [Feynman, by Mares] |
1787 | Philolaus was the first person to say the earth moves in a circle [Philolaus, by Diog. Laertius] |