A set of quotes attributed to this philosopher hold that "time is the wisest of things, for it finds out everything" and that "God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth." In a fable, a servant girl scolds this man for being unaware of what is at his feet when this stargazer falls into a well. Aristotle considered this man the first of the physiologoi and recorded his belief that lodestones can attract iron because magnets have souls. Diogenes Laertius attributes the maxim "know thyself" to this thinker in the first entry of his Lives. He reportedly proved philosophy could be useful by predicting a good harvest and buying up all the olive presses. This man taught that the Earth floated on a world ocean. For 10 points, name this pre-Socratic teacher of Anaximander, a Milesian who believed the first principle was water. ■END■
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