Arrogance Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

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

Scientific revolutions, almost by definition, defy common sense.

— Michio Kaku

Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human arrogance off…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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

But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation…

— Arthur Balfour

“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

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

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

Revolutions are all based on the false idea that humans and their nature can be changed.

— Peter Hitchens

science is the most revolutionary force in the world.

— George Sarton

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

“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