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Thales thought its primal substance was water, Anaximenes air, Heraclitus fire.

And Hermippus says, that Theocritus of Chios used to blame the way in which Anaximenes used to wrap his cloak round him as a boorish style of dressing.

Anaximenes seems to have inclined to a view of cosmic evolution as throughout involving a quasi-spiritual factor.

He was a pupil of Anaximenes and a contemporary of Anaxagoras.

Anaximenes thought they were "fastened like nails" in a crystalline firmament, and others thought them to be "fiery plates of gold resembling pictures."