"I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory."

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From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time. ... Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of Hellenistic thought on modern thought?

— Lucio Russo