Ah, I wasn’t familiar with the story of the monk who was ahead of his time. Here, however, we hear of Giordano Bruno, of Galileo Galilei – of wise men who knew things that their contemporaries were not yet able to comprehend, and who were therefore suspected of witchcraft or worse. Leonardo da Vinci was, in his day, a quirky and eccentric loner – nobody could recognise the genius back then...

Today we know a great deal more, but compared to all the knowledge out there, still a vanishingly small amount. Of course, with every new discovery, old ‘knowledge’ turns out to be flawed or simply outdated. And that’s fine! If we already knew all the answers: what goals would we still set ourselves, what would we strive for, what would we explore...?