Before the scientific revolution, they believed that everything important, knowable, was already known, enshrined in ancient writings, institutions and in some genuinely useful rules of thumb -- which were, however, entrenched as dogmas, along with many falsehoods.
Prije znanstvene revolucije, vjerovali su da je sve važno, spoznatljivo, već poznato, sadržano u drevnim napisima, institucijama, kao i u nekim istinski korisnim pravilima -- koja su bila, ipak, ukorijenjena kao dogme, zajedno s mnogim neistinama.