Tag Archives: Heraclitus
Thoughts Arising from Viewing the Art of Hilma af Klint
Here is the one which stands out in my memory: The title was not important to me, but I later saw that it is entitled Altarpiece. This shows where each of us is headed, toward the limit of one’s path … Continue reading
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”
These are the words of Sir Isaac Newton, 1675 A.D., quoting a well-known saying coined a few hundred years earlier. He was reminding us of the debt that current scholars owe to the great ones of the past. Newton was a physicist, … Continue reading
Posted in Greece, History
Tagged Empedocles, Gorgias, Heraclitus, Herodotus, Plato, Pre-Socratic philosophers, Protagoras, Pythagorean Theorem, Sir Isaac Newton, Thales of Miletus
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