12 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
13152 | We can talk of 'innumerable number', about the infinite points on a line [Newton] |
13151 | Not all infinites are equal [Newton] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
15863 | The principles of my treatise are designed to fit with a belief in God [Newton] |
8340 | I do not pretend to know the cause of gravity [Newton] |
13150 | The motions of the planets could only derive from an intelligent agent [Newton] |
12178 | That gravity should be innate and essential to matter is absurd [Newton] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
19414 | Men are related to animals, which are related to plants, then to fossils, and then to the apparently inert [Leibniz] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |