images  and  thoughts

The art of a cave man could be placed in our galleries. Why most of us think that he or she should not seat at our table?

The saints of today are not necessarily more saintly than those of a thousand years ago; our artists are not necessarily greater than those of early Greece; they are likely to be inferior; and, of course, our man of science are not necessarily more intelligent than those of old; yet one thing is certain, their knowledge is at once more extensive and more accurate.

The acquisition and systematization of positive knowledge is the only human activity that is truly cumulative and progressive.

George Sarton: History of science, Harvard University Press, 1952.

Northern shore of Lake Ontario, Canada

Term ‘positive knowledge’ is ambiguous; as for the negative usage of knowledge, that is also truly cumulative in human history.