Footnote Physicist

          “[Aristotle] divided early Greek thinkers into theologi ,who saw the world as controlled by              impetuous supernatural beings, and physici (naturalists), who tried instead to explain an apparently           disordered world in terms of simpler and impersonal principles.  He said the Milesians were the           first physici .”           – Anthony Gottlieb I           “Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at           the bottom of it too?”           – Douglas Adams II           Natural philosophy (or naturalism ) is the understanding that our explanations of the world ought to be carnal , non-teleological, and above...