Philosopher Mystics and Polymaths

A traipsing through a smattering of philosophers, scientists, geniuses, and great thinkers over the ages

Thales of Miletus lived circa 624 BCE to 545 BCE and proposed that water was the essence of all matter, predating matter and undergirding all of physical reality. This cosmology interestingly relates to a recent discovery in modern science in which it is shown that the water in our solar system predates the Sun, the Earth, the Moon, and all celestial bo…