Daniel Schotman

“To be ignorant of what has happened before your birth is to remain always a child. For what is the meaning of a man's life unless it is intertwined with that of our ancestors by history ?”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Oratore Liber Primus: Edited On the Basis of Sorof's

“Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design.”
― Adam Ferguson

“1 Nothing exists. 2. If anything did exist, we could not know it. 3. If we could know that someting existed, we would not be able to communicate it to anyone else.”
― Gorgias of Leontini

“Every civilization of which we have records has possessed a technology, an art, a religion, a political system, laws and so on. In many cases those facets of civilizations have been as developed as our own. But only the civilizations that descend from Hellenic Greece have possessed more than the most rudimentary science. The bulk of scientific knowledge is a product of Europe in the last four centuries. No other place and time has supported the very special communities from which scientific productivity comes.”
― Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions