Thales of Miletus#Thales
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#Thales
Thales of Miletus · c. 624–546 BCE
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“Thales was wrong about almost everything and it didn't matter, because he invented a new way of being wrong — with reasons, about nature, in a way others could check and correct.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“The world can be explained by looking at the world — not by telling stories about the gods — and beneath all its variety there may be one single underlying stuff (Thales' candidate: water).”
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