Socrates
- Footnote 4
4. "When I was young I has a prodigious desire
to know that department of philosophy called Natural science... then I heard
someone who had a book of Anaxagoras, as he said, out of which he read that
mind was the disposer and cause of all. I was quite delighted at the notion
of this which appeared admirable.. what hopes I had formed, and how grievously
I dissappointed! As I proceeded, I found my philosopher altogether forsaking
mind or any other principle of order, but having recourse to air, ether, water,
and other eccentricities."
Phaedo, Jowett translation of The Works of Plato, Four Volumes Complete in One, Tudor Publishing Company, pgs. 241-244 of Volume III.