The philosopher Soctates once said "If the entire knowledge of the world could be contained within a single gourd and if this gourd were then held aloft and taken by a seagull and dropped mid-ocean, man would be free to replant the orchard in a manner befitting God. The fruit of this orchard could never replace the gourd or roll as far as the ocean but might get pecked at by the seagull." It is not one of his most quoted thinkings.