4 ideas
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
15312 | We get the idea of power by abstracting from ropes, magnets and electric shocks [Priestley] |
20239 | Unlike us, the early Greeks thought envy was a good thing, and hope a bad thing [Hesiod, by Nietzsche] |
15311 | Attraction or repulsion are not imparted to matter, but actually constitute it [Priestley] |