4 ideas
18189 | ZFC could contain a contradiction, and it can never prove its own consistency [MacLane] |
3648 | Empiricists are collecting ants; rationalists are spinning spiders; and bees do both [Bacon] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |