The interweaving of knowledge and philosophy up to the modern era goes back to Thales of Miletus, regarded as one of the seven sages of Greek civilization (624 BC - 543 BC). "Know Thyself" is an aphorism of knowledge attributed to the times of Thales. This Greek Maxim etched in stone at the gate leading to the temple of Apollo in Delphi has become a philosophical question studied to this day. Another sage in the exposition of total knowledge, a Vedic...