"Most European scientific explorers drew on indigenous information about plant and animal life, medicine, geology, geography and navigation, while taking full credit for their ‘original’ discoveries and proclaiming the supremacy of European thought over other knowledge systems. In this way, the European intellectual tradition became the measure of all knowledge, while other ways of knowing became downgraded as less valid, objective or true." -- from 'The Trembling Hand' by Mathelinda Nabugodi