Ancient Quote by Frederick Lenz

As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach…

— John Wesley

The sciences are found, like Hercules's oxen, by tracing them backward; and old sciences are unravelled like old stockings, by beginning at the foot.

— Jonathan Swift

The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The inventions in…

— John Adams

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

— Michel Foucault

“A belief that the ancients held unusual scientific knowledge, of which only fragments remain today, was held by many great philosophers and scientists who…

— David Flynn

“The profane sciences of which the modern world is so proud are really and truly only the degenerate ‘residues’ of the ancient traditional sciences.”

— René Guénon

In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

— Saint John Chrysostom

“It is certain that the labors of these early workers in the field of natural knowledge were brought to a standstill by the decay…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to…

— Arthur Koestler

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a…

— William Whewell

The historical development of the work of anthropologists seems to single out clearly a domain of knowledge that heretofore has not been treated by…

— Franz Boas