Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without
being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short
he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.
-- Pliny the Elder (23-79 AD)
-- Natural History, Book vii, Sect. 4
Related:
The world, and whatever that be which we call the heave by the
vault of which all things are enclosed, we must conceive to be a deity,
to be eternal, without bounds, neither created nor subject at any
time to destruction....
