“Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution. — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
Technology must be guided and driven by ethics if it is to do more than provide new toys for the rich. — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for… — Julian Jaynes Copy Share Image
Almost always the men who achieve these fundamental inventions of a new paradigm have been either very young or very new to… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
...As Thomas Kuhn pointed out in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, new scientific theories in any field are regarded with skepticism because… — Marilyn Ferguson Copy Share Image
We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Whereas the Agricultural Revolution gave rise to theist religions, the Scientific Revolution gave birth to humanist religions, in which humans replaced gods.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Although scientific revolutions in how we see the world do occur, the bulk of our scientific understanding comes from the cumulative impact… — Michael E. Mann Copy Share Image
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“The scientific revolution was, in many ways, a by-product of mysticism and magic. In fact, once the tangled origins of modern science… — John N. Gray Copy Share Image
Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“One cannot, therefore, understand Arabic science without considering the extent to which Islam influenced scientific and philosophical thought. Arabic science was, throughout… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
The great scientific achievements are research programmes which can be evaluated in terms of progressive and degenerative problemshifts; and scientific revolutions consist… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
“Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. The Agricultural Revolution sped it… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The irrefutable fact is that Christianity gave birth to modern science. The scientific revolution began with the Protestant Reformation and the Bible… — Glen Rambharack Copy Share Image
Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
“E www ... intelligent design people! They're just buck-toothed, Bible-pushing nincompoops with community-college degrees who're trying to sell a gussied-up creationism to… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
“To extend the digital metaphor, both rivals must also reconsider the fitness of their apps for the twenty-first century. In his book… — Graham Allison Copy Share Image
“The scientific revolution was part of a wider intellectual revolution, the Enlightenment, which also brought progress in other fields, especially moral and… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“Modern science was born through the Scientific Revolution in the 11th/17th century at a time when, as we saw earlier, European philosophy… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
“Textbooks, however, being pedagogic vehicles for the perpetuation of normal science, have to be rewritten in whole or in part whenever the… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the discoveries of science the harmony of the spheres is also now the harmony of life. And as the eerie illumination… — Michael Denton Copy Share Image
“For the purposes of science, information had to mean something special. Three centuries earlier, the new discipline of physics could not proceed… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
“Today, the 4-billion-year-old regime of natural selection is facing a completely different challenge. In laboratories throughout the world, scientists are engineering living… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“We actually tried Free Will before. After taking you from hunting and gathering to the height of the Roman Empire we stepped… — Philip Dick Copy Share Image
“We noted in Section II that an increasing reliance on textbooks or their equivalent was an invariable concomitant of the emergence of… — Thomas S. Kuhn Copy Share Image
“We often associate science with the values of secularism and tolerance. If so, early modern Europe is the last place you would… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“To return to the general analysis of the Rosicrucian outlook. Magic was a dominating factor, working as a mathematics-mechanics in the lower… — Frances A. Yates Copy Share Image
“The exaltation of human reason and its capabilities, a commitment to rigorous and rational debate, a promotion of intellectual inquiry and scholarly… — Thomas E. Woods Jr Copy Share Image
Where do you draw the line as a human being? Written record is only, what, a couple thousand years? And this scientific… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
“The Scientific Revolution had revealed that everyday experience is a narrow slice of a vast continuum of scales from the microscopic to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what… — Alan F. Chalmers Copy Share Image
“The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.” — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image