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Anaximander
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“All things must in equity again decline into that whence they have their origin for they must give satisfaction and atonement for injustice each in the order of time.”
Anaximander (610–546 BC) said by 546 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On Nature, as quoted by , History of Philosophy, from Thales to the Present Time (1885) Vol. 1, p. 35.
“The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.”
Anaximander (610–546 BC) said by 546 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Science Attests the Accuracy of the Bible" in The Watchtower (1 October 1980)
“There cannot be a single, simple body which is infinite, either, as some hold, one distinct from the elements, which they then derive from it, nor without this qualification. For there are some who make this (i.e. a body distinct from the elements) the infinite, and not air or water, in order that the other things may not be destroyed by their infinity. They are in opposition one to another — air is cold, water moist, and fire hot—and therefore, if any one of them were infinite, the rest would have ceased to be by this time. Accordingly they say that what is infinite is something other than the elements, and from it the elements arise.”
Anaximander (610–546 BC) said by 546 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source