Buddhism Quote by Isaiah Berlin

“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous…

— Russell Shorto

“Orthodox Marxism, therefore, does not imply the uncritical acceptance of the results of Marx’s investigations. It is not the ‘belief’ in this or that…

— György Lukács

“There is only one thing that can never go past a certain point in its alliance with oppression--and that is orthodoxy. I may, it…

— G.K. Chesterton

The French Revolution, Fichte's Theory of Knowledge, and Goethe's Wilhelm Meister are the three greatest tendencies of the age. Whoever takes offence at this…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The scientific revolution was part of a wider intellectual revolution, the Enlightenment, which also brought progress in other fields, especially moral and political philosophy,…

— David Deutsch

“They had watched him make a masterwork of scapegoating Jews for Germany’s fall from power and persuade his followers that enlightenment, humanity, and tolerance…

— Jessica Shattuck

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

This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the…

— Edmond Halley

“The revolution of science that Newton single-handedly achieved in Principia was primarily that the laws of motion and gravity, and the nature of space…

— David Flynn

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

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

“Until recently, attempts to resolve the contradictions created by urbanization, centralization, bureaucratic growth and statification were viewed as a vain counterdrift to "progress"—a counterdrift…

— Murray Bookchin