Bounds Quote by Paul Feyerabend

Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.

— Paul Feyerabend

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a…

— William Whewell

That we can now think of no mechanism for astrology is relevant but unconvincing. No mechanism was known, for example, for continental drift when…

— Carl Sagan

“This is important because our behavior is affected by our assumptions or our perceived truths. We make decisions based on what we think we…

— Simon Sinek

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had…

— George Eliot

“Data that did not fit the commonly accepted assumptions of a discipline would either be discounted or explained away for as long as possible.…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

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 great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that…

— H. Richard Niebuhr

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in…

— Arthur Koestler

As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it…

— George Julius Poulett Scrope

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.

— Bryan Magee

Lest we forget, the birth of modern physics and cosmology was achieved by Galileo, Kepler and Newton breaking free not from the close confining…

— David Bentley Hart