But if the history of mankind was her own history, in a way she was thousands of years old.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achieve true insight. Socrates was one of these rare people. He knew that he knew nothing about life and about the world. And now comes the important part: it troubled him that he knew so little.

Plato, Socrates, Aristotle and many more great minds laid the groundwork for the development of modern science. Over the foundation of philosophy, history witnessed the daring ventures of human excellence by both philosophical and scientific geniuses, such as Leonardo-da-Vinci, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Bacon, Darwin, Newton and so on. And the chain of reaction they triggered with their extraordinarily abnormal thinking, given their surrounding ignorance and fundamentalism, resulted into the evolution of our modern science.

Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance.