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Quotes About Anaximenes

To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes?
~ Anaximenes
Thales of Miletus, the first philosopher-scientist. His theory that the world had developed from one element (water) was just the beginning. This idea, once conceived, was quickly developed by Thales' pupils in Miletus – the philosophers known as the Milesian school. One of these was Anaximenes
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