"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 t…"

"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 …"

"Thales asserted Water to be the principle of things. For he saw that matter was principally dispensed in moisture, an…"

"Thales had a motto — sophotaton chronos aneuriskei gar panta — which means time is wisest because it discovers everyt…"

"It seems probable that the early Greeks were largely indebted to the Phoenicians for their knowledge of practical ari…"

"It has fallen to the lot of one people, the ancient Greeks, to endow human thought with two outlooks on the universe …"

"It was not Zeno, the founder of the Stoics, alone, who taught that the Universe evolves, and its primary substance is…"