"Knowledge, which is power, knows no limits, either in its enslavement of creation or in its deference to worldly masters."

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The authority of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeno and Epicurus, still reigned in the schools; and their systems, transmitted with blind deference from one generation of disciples to another, precluded every generous attempt to exercise the powers, or enlarge the limits, of the human mind.

— Edward Gibbon