Change Quote by Alan F. Chalmers

“The scientific revolution was, in many ways, a by-product of mysticism and magic. In fact, once the tangled origins of modern science are unravelled,…

— John N. Gray

About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes".

— Herbert Butterfield

“Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may…

— I. Bernard Cohen

The Scientific Revolution, that remarkable transformation of European thought that occurred between approximately 1550 and 1700, brought with it an ascendancy of the experimental…

— Sherwin B. Nuland

Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world... I am convinced that we…

— Thomas Kuhn

“Scientific revolutions tend to emerge not from a sudden discovery but by asking better questions”

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

“If a revolution is not accessible, tangible, and replicable, how on earth can it be a revolution?”

— Malcolm Gladwell

“However, the Scientific Revolution freed humankind from this conviction. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“…once science had declared a thing possible, there was no escape from its eventual realization…”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“They seemed to have imagined that scientific progress could be allowed to go on indefinitely, regardless of everything else. Knowledge was the highest good,…

— Aldous Huxley

“Science is an ongoing process. It never ends. There is no single ultimate truth to be achieved, after which all the scientists can retire.”

— Carl Sagan