““But it forms the backdrop for Thales' idea that the world arose from the waters. This ur-ocean however to him is not one more God among others as is Hesiod's and Homer's "deeply vortexed Okeanos"; for Thales this ocean is the one and only source from which the world springs by condensation and evaporation. And all the while the total amount of this ur-matter remains the same; it cannot be created or annihilated. It carries the force that moves both the cosmos and all organisms-so pervasive and so multi-faceted that it makes up the stuff of the world and fills it to the brim. In this worldview, there is no room for nothingness””
