Research Quote by Lisa Feldman Barrett

“The Scientific Revolution has not been a revolution of knowledge. It has been above all a revolution of ignorance. The great discovery that launched…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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 resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of…

— Thomas Kuhn

“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

“Modern-day science is a unique tradition of knowledge, inasmuch as it openly admits collective ignorance regarding the most important questions.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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 greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

“Often known science will revolt against unknown science”

— Tirumala

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

— Nigel Calder

As for sticking strictly to presently known science, I will simply point out that we have already experienced at least two major revolutions in…

— Stanley Schmidt