Any Quote by Sherwin B. Nuland

“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

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

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

All revolutionary advances in science may consist less of sudden and dramatic revelations than a series of transformations, of which the revolutionary significance may…

— I. Bernard Cohen

“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 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

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

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 seventeenth century witnessed the birth of modern science as we know it today. This science was something new, based on a direct confrontation…

— I. Bernard Cohen

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

— Michio Kaku

If we would understand the Scientific Revolution correctly, we should always remember that its most powerful impetus was the unremitting search for hidden divinity.…

— Julian Jaynes