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Thales

Also known as Thales of Miletus

ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician

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Thales was an ancient Greek philosopher and mathematician who lived around 2,600 years ago and is often considered the first Western philosopher. He matters because he pioneered the idea of explaining the natural world through reason and observation rather than mythology, laying the groundwork for Western science and philosophy.

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Quotes

“Water is the first principle of everything.”
“Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.”
“Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.”
“Do not ask who started it. Finish it”
“Nothing is more ancient than God, for He was never created; nothing more beautiful than the world, it is the work of that same God; nothing is more active than thought, for it flies over the whole universe; nothing is stronger than necessity, for all must submit to it.”

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Commons category: Thales of Miletus
date of death: 0545-00-00
name in native language: Θαλῆς ὁ Μιλήσιος
date of birth: 0620-00-00

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Thales of Miletus (/ˈθeɪliːz/ THAY-leez; Ancient Greek: Θαλῆς; c. 626/623 – c. 548/545 BC) was an Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. Thales was one of the Seven Sages, founding figures of Ancient Greece.

Beginning in eighteenth-century historiography, many came to regard him as the first philosopher in the Greek tradition, breaking from the prior use of mythology to explain the world and instead using natural philosophy. He is thus otherwise referred to as the first to have engaged in mathematics, science, and deductive reasoning.