11 sentences with 'thinkers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word thinkers and other words derived from it.
• « And, despite the growing derision of the thinkers of the day, he stood firm in his views by drawing strength from his home and family. »
• « Confucius, Lao Tse and other great thinkers of China contributed to the dissemination and foundation of the millenary cures. »
• « The idea of the "Dark Ages" was invented by thinkers during the Renaissance, which began around 1300 CE. »
• « The great thinkers and artists of the Renaissance claimed to be moving away from the ignorance and darkness of the Middle Ages - which they also described as the "dark ages" - and back to the greatness of the Romans and Greeks. »
• « Perhaps most importantly, Renaissance thinkers proudly linked their own era to that of the Greeks and Romans, thus strengthening the concept of Western civilisation as an ongoing enterprise. »
• « Unlike earlier thinkers, Greek scientists sought to understand the workings of the universe on its own terms, not merely giving the details to the will of the gods. »
• « The earliest known Greek scientist was Thales of Miletus (i.e., Thales, and his students, who were also important scientific thinkers, were from the polis of Miletus in Ionia), who during the Archaic era set out to understand natural forces without recourse to references to the gods. »
• « Socrates-Plato-Aristotle is one of the most remarkable intellectual lineages in history: three of the greatest thinkers of Greek civilisation and one of the greatest military and political leaders, all linked together as teachers and students. »
• « Euclid is one of those relatively few ancient thinkers who actually "got it right" in the sense that none of his major assertions were later proved to be inaccurate. »
• « Hellenistic thinkers also made important discoveries in astronomy, most notably the fact that certain astronomers determined that the sun was the centre of the solar system. »
• « This decline of basic schooling in Europe inspired the scorn of later Renaissance thinkers, who wrote off the period between the fall of Rome and the beginning of the Renaissance around 1300 CE as the "Dark Ages". »