The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.
AristotleThe rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth.
AristotleIt is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre.
Aristotle