| For the rest we touched upon all the historic names from Thales to Nietzsche. |
| Moreover, Thales propounded the problem, and determined the direction and character, of all pre-Socratic philosophy. |
| Under questioning, Thales admitted that it had no experience with lithium-ion batteries in airplanes. |
| First of all Thales thought that water was the primordial substance of all things. |
| Thales and the Ionians on the mainland were the Founders of Applied Science. |
| The Babylonians had found a cycle of 223 lunar months within which eclipses of sun and moon recur at equal intervals and Thales had discovered this formula. |
