Art Bébé says,

‘Described from Gerhard Sonnert’s Einstein & Culture: ‘To strive for a complete view of the world, in a general sense, is an old an recurring dream of humankind, a dream that the late Isiah Berlin somewhat skeptically called the Ionian Fallacy. In the sixth century BCE, Ionian philosophers first inquired. Into the ultimate nature of the Universe. Thales, the first of them, concluded that everything came from water; Anaximander identified the unexperienceable (apeiron) as the ultimate source, Anaximenes argued for air, and Heraclitus favored fire.’