Question: Why do things move? Before Aristotle: Um, Zeus’s will I guess. No need to look further. Aristotle: Great question! I don’t really know. But maybe t

Question: Why do things move? Before Aristotle: Um, Zeus’s will I guess. No need to look further. Aristotle: Great question! I don’t really know. But maybe that’s something we should investigate and reason about so that we can understand how our world works. Hmmm, maybe… like this? After Aristotle: What he said. No need to look further. I think he’d have been horrified at the idea that we could stop investigating, and yet.