Birth
Born in Miletus
Born in Miletus on the Ionian coast, a harbor city where Egyptian geometry and Babylonian astronomy arrived with every trading ship.
Before philosophy had a name, Miletus was already asking practical questions about land, stars, and storms. Thales grew up where foreign knowledge and local ambition met. That setting matters: his famous turn toward nature was not abstract escape from the world, but a new way of reading it.
Words
“Water is the first principle of all things.”
