Aristotle is considered by many to be the source of modern scientific thought. The forces that influenced Aristotle are perhaps best understood on a historical basis. Greek thinkers around 600 BC began to see the world around them as governed by something other than its many personifications of gods and adopted a naturalistic way of thinking, which in turn was foundational to early science. This may have been triggered by their enthusiasm for foreign travel, which may have made them skeptical of their own traditions.2Thales (ca. 640-546 BC) of Miletus is considered the founder of natural philosophy and believed that all things they come from water and that the Earth floats on water. From the time of Thales onwards, philosophers sought "...the fundamental things that remain the same despite all the changes in nature: when water freezes into ice or evaporates into steam, when a log burns and becomes ash, which produces smoke, when a plant grows, flowers, then dies and rots." of all the changes." 2Aristotle adopted Empedocles' system of the four elements, earth, water, air and fire. Aristotle furthered this concept by postulating that their order would be established naturally and would settle in layers, if undisturbed: "The earth falls through the water, and the water through the air. The air boils through the water and the flames rise through the air." 3 It was Aristotle, in part, with his theory of motion that influenced Isaac Newton. Aristotle considered the movement of planets and the movement of bodies as two separate matters, while Isaac Newton saw them as a universal force... in the center of the card..., man was about to be transformed from a superstitious and believe in magic , in shamanism, dreams, and polytheism for a man capable of seeking answers through scientific means.20 Today we can credit Aristotle's introduction of science, logic, and institutions of higher learning.Works CitedBarnes, Jonathon . The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.Barrett, William. Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy. New York: Doubleday, 1985. McKeon, Richard P. Introduction to Aristotle. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973. Meadows, Arthur J. The Great Scientists. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.Peters, F. E. Aristotle and the Arabs: The Aristotelian Tradition in Islam. New York: New York University Press, 1968. Ramzy, Ishak. The Freudian paradigm. Chicago: Nelson-Hall Inc. Publishers, 1977.