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
We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution — Harold Wilson Copy Share Image
“Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance.” — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“The inventions of microscopy and telescopy shattered the boundaries of ordinary human perception and fueled the scientific revolution.” — Richard J. Borden 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
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
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 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
...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
“Nicolaus Copernicus was the father of the heliocentric model—the belief that the planets revolve around the sun—which ignited a scientific revolution in… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
As in political revolutions, so in paradigm choice--there is no standard higher than the assent of the relevant community. To discover how… — Thomas Kuhn Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to note that the quantum-mechanical revolution was made by a virtually orphaned generation of scientists. Many members of the… — Lee Smolin 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
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“The Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance. The great discovery… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We are redefining and we are restating our Socialism in terms of the scientific revolution ... The Britain that is going to… — Harold Wilson 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Nukes and Peace It takes hundreds of years of hard work to build a civilization, and yet with the press of a… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science.… — Michael Crichton 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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“The controversy between Darwinism and intelligent design has the characteristics of major scientific revolutions in the past. Darwinists are losing power because… — Jonathan Wells Copy Share Image
“A belief that the ancients held unusual scientific knowledge, of which only fragments remain today, was held by many great philosophers and… — David Flynn Copy Share Image