Story of Hypatia of Alexandria: About this publication and Hypatia of Alexandria What Hypatia wrote and said in these crystal clear eternal statements Tortured and killed by a mob of fundamentalist monks in 416 A.C. 5) Men will fight for superstition as quickly as for the living truth - even more so, since superstition is intangible. (That "superstition is intangible" became 1600 years later the basis of Karl Poppers theory of scientific evidence. Only refuting evidence of a theory is possible, but never positive proof. Popper: A theory which is intangible contains zero information. It is totally worthless.) Hypatia said these words 1400 years before Lessing, Voltaire and Kant. The philosophers of the Enlightenment repeated the words of my Hypatia (my Hypatia? Please remember: I love her). One must know that neoplatonism was teaching that absolute truth is out of reach for human beings. Thomas of Aquino (1224-1274), the greatest accepted scholastic authority of the church came to the same conclusion - but the church shovelled the consequences under the big carpet. In the year 1517 Martin Luther lifted the carpet. It exploded. back   next page What Hypatia wrote and said in these crystal clear eternal statements: 1) Nothing is more important than good schools for all boys and all girls 2) Reserve your right to think, even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all! 3) No priests should be allowed to force their believes on you and rob you of your right to evolve your own way of life 4) Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truth is one of the most terrible things. The mind of a child accepts them, and only through great pain, perhaps even tragedy can the child be relieved of them.