The ugly truth of science

[Monte Davis]

Nor were armored knights amused by the longbow, or for that matter by peasants trained to hold a line of pikes. 

 

From: Kai Frederik Lorentzen [mailto:lorentzen at hotmail.de] 
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"Could Homer's Iliad have been written in a world that already knew gunpowder?"

Karl Marx

>>… or “Would Power and Wealth and Preterition Have Played Nicely if They Hadn’t Had Pointy Sticks, Metal, Gunpowder, Calculus, Steam Power, Electric Utilities, Behavioral Psychology, Nuclear Weapons, IT, and Genetic Engineering?”<<

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