“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“For the early scientists, the image of God was not a dry doctrine to which they gave merely cognitive assent. Nor was… — Nancy Pearcey 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance.” — Yuval Noah Harari 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
“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
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