Thales of Miletus Quotations

"I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine."
Quoted in In Mathematical Circles by H Eves.

"Water is the principle, or the element, of things. All things are water."
Quoted in Placita Philosophorum by Plutarch

"I did not become a father because I am fond of children." Quoted in Wisdom by Des MacHale