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History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that very feature being…

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All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary…
The seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a…
History without the history of science, to alter slightly an apothegm of Lord Bacon, resembles a statue of Polyphemus without his eye-that…
Taken over the centuries, scientific ideas have exerted a force on our civilization fully as great as the more tangible practical applications…
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as…

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Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no… — Thomas B. Macaulay
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