然而两千二百年前,就有科学家了。在罗马成为远西的亡命之徒的营地之前,亚里士多德就说过,如果一个人掌握了真理,就像他掌握了示威游行的定义一样,他不会拥有观点,而是知识。
(Yet twenty-two hundred years ago, there were scientists. Before Rome was an outlaw's camp in the far west, Aristotle was saying, If a man grasps truths that can not be other than they are, in the way in which he grasps the definitions through which demonstrations take place, he will not have opinion, but knowledge.)