Modern humans have always been thirsty for knowledge since their dawn some thousand years ago. Earliest humans looked around and tried to figure out how stuff worked. They were successful to an extent. They could control fire, which enabled them to eat literally anything. Cave paintings show how they perceived nature. They explained whatever they could, what they could not was attributed to divinity. (It's still a trait) Fast forward: the dark ages. Nothing in human history has proven so impeding to knowledge as the dark ages. Just to give an example, Islamic world was one of the most advanced societies around the 8 th century AD. They discovered a number of celestial bodies and hence most of them have Arabic names. They established complex mathematical theorems. The Arabic numerals are the ones we use (base 10). What happened afterwards? Why did the rational progress stop? Why was science scorned upon later? The answer is in one guy. Some religious leader declar
These are my thoughts on random topics.