You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.Im not saying youre more intelligent than Aristotle, or wiser. For all I know, Aristotles the cleverest person who ever lived. Thats not the point. The point is only that science is cumulative, and we live later.
http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/dawkins/lecture_p1.html
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