Anaxagoras

Philosopher (500 BC – 428 BC)

Anaxagoras was a Pre-Socratic Greek Philosopher who devised the cosmological concept of Nous or mind and the ordering force. He lived in Athens and although he held property and political influence it is believed he gave it all away to seek knowledge and become a greater philosopher.

Quotes

Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller. Likewise, there is always something arger than what is large.

How could hair come from what is not hair or flesh from what is not flesh?

In everything there is a portion of everything except mind.