The birth of science and philosophy is regarded to have sprang in 585 BC, for about that era, a pre-Socratic philosopher named Thales made a profound impact of assumption that broke with the world view of his day. He was the first to postulate that all things were made of a single substance “water” and that the processes of advancement might arise from within the search of testable explanations and predictions about the substance itself. Thus, he was dubbed the “Father of Science.”

And thanks to the sciences, today we have volumes of encyclopedias about all these disciplines and subjects, that each of us can use to expound the larger implications of the subject matter and to clarify how we think the meaning of all the facts taken together. Now imagine the fact that most of these informative reference works were accumulated during the lifetime of many great scientists and philosophers, which they shared with us of what they have researched and pondered in the largest possible perspective, and is now available to all of us, PhDs. We are already living in a whole new world unimagined by our great grand ancestors.