That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body.
AristotleNow, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the "why" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which.
AristotleNo one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act.
Aristotle