Thales - King of all Thinking

The West was born with Thales during the Axial Age.

Logos over Mythos

Words/true/reason over Beliefs/truth/feeling

All is united through some ONE substance, which is ever changing like water.

There is no Socrates (Socratic Method). Plato (Platonic Dialogues), or Aristotle (Aristotelianism) without Thales.

‘Thales’ means a green sprout …so to bloom, proper, flourish.

He knew that his name needed water, water was made of Hydrogen (the generator of water), and that all elements are made in flaming hydrogen balls of the cosmos called suns/stars when they explode - Supernovas.

Thales said to look to nature for answers, rather than to the gods.

He preconditioned humans to see/understand gravity and the uncertainty of quantum mechanics.

The arche (one substance of all) and the every flowing change of Heraclitus were made possible by him.

This “father of natural philosophy” should also be called the “father of science.”