17th century Quotes

“The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.”

“Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.”

“The curve of man’s knowledge of himself ascends until the 17th century, declines gradually afterwards, in this century it finally plummets”

“Without computers, in the 17th century, we could classify the entire animal kingdom... there was this idea of the speciation, right? And now, all a search engine is is essentially the mathematical speciation of ideas - and these things really derive from the way that language is used and the way words relate.”