Why would it be interesting that I venerate the father of modern psychology or possibly the greatest philosopher (maybe even thinker) in history? They had to be wrong first so that someone else could build on them and be right. Then those people are built on, then them. That's science. Besides, they both broke ground in ways that are very rare in scientific development. That earns my eternal veneration.
BTW, Aristotle was also arguably the first actual physicist.
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/3494