10 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
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] |
22745 | Pherecydes said the first principle and element is earth [Pherecydes, by Sext.Empiricus] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
21730 | A 'field' is a property with a magnitude, distributed across all of space and time [Baggott] |
21731 | Fields can be 'scalar', or 'vector', or 'tensor', or 'spinor' [Baggott] |
21732 | The current standard model requires 61 particles [Baggott] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
5883 | Pherecydes was the first to say that the soul is eternal [Pherecydes, by Cicero] |