Breakdown Quote by Julian Jaynes

“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

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

“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

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 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

The truly scientific mind is altogether unafraid of the new, and while having no mercy for ideas which have served their turn or shown…

— Wilfred Trotter

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

“In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining,…

— Carl Sagan

We have found that where science has progressed the farthest, the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.

— Arthur Eddington

Scientific civilisation has destroyed the soul of the world.

— Alexis Carrel

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could…

— Ezra Pound

A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm the timeless…

— John Hagelin