Christendom Quote by Herbert Butterfield

It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere…

— Herbert Butterfield

“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

“It would seem that the scientific revolution involved not just a progressive transformation of scientific theory, but also a transformation in what were considered…

— Alan F. Chalmers

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

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

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

— Yuval Noah Harari

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

— Michio Kaku

“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

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“science at its best was a flower of Western culture, unbiased, apolitical, transnational, open, and progressive. It destroyed superstition and cant. It threw at…

— Thomas Hager

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“I never said a word against eminent men of science. What I complain of is a vague popular philosophy which supposes itself to be…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Science is a trigger of changes of civilization. Religion is the failsafe of science performance.”

— Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident