The first educated people that we know of, which was probably even the Egyptian upper class and then into the Greek, literally, all the philosophers had time to do all the pondering, because they didn’t worry about being poor or having to earn a living and so on. That’s when they have the time to sit and work and fathom things out and experiment with different things and so on and to find the laws in nature that now are the sciences.
Watu wakwanza waliopata elimu tunayojua, ambapo inaonekana ilikuwa, tabaka la juu la Wamisri alafu ikaenda kwa Wagriki, kweli, wanafilososfia wote walikuwa na muda wa kufikiria, kwasababu hawakuwa na wasi ya umaskini ama vitu kama hivyo. Hapo ndiyo wako na muda wa kukaa na kufanya kazi na kujaribu kuelewa vitu na uzoefu kwa vitu tofauti na kuendelea na kupata sheria za asili ambazo saa hii ziko kwa masayansi.