Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, was called "intelligence personified. They gave him this name either out of admiration for the extraordinary intellectual powers he displayed in the investigation of natural phenomena, or else because he was the first to dethrone Chance and Necessity and set up pure Intelligence in their place as the first principle of law and order which informs the universe, and which distinguishes from an otherwise chaotic mass those substances which possess elements in common.
Its from Plutarch, in his essay on Pericles (4)
