The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9
"The philosophers of Greece have made much ado to explain nature, 
and not
one of their systems has remained firm and unshaken, each being
overturned by its successor. It is vain to refute them; they are
sufficient in themselves to destroy one another.
---Those who were too
ignorant to rise to a knowledge of a God, could not allow that an
intelligent cause presided at the birth of the Universe; a primary error
that involved them in sad consequences."
Basil of Caesarea (329-379 AD), Hexaemeron