Oh, they w-were, of course. But... not as ubiquitously. S-Simply put, much of the ignorance of pre-Terran humans was... discarded.

[For Robert, the idea that magic and science are somehow compatible is only one that he developed after being in Luceti, and seeing other worlds' magic as some form of physics-variation.

... His own world simply can't support magic.]

W-Well... I have some d-direct evidence, albeit I... should probably repeat that experiment before... drawing conclusions.