#AnaximanderOfMiletus

“He was the first person we know of to say the earth hangs in empty space, held up by nothing at all — and he worked it out by pure reasoning, two and a half thousand years before anyone could check.”

“The source of everything cannot be any ordinary stuff like water or air — it must be the apeiron, the boundless and indefinite, from which all things emerge and to which they all return.”