Edgar Zilsel Quotes

Edgar Zilsel was an Austrian-American historian and philosopher of science.

✵ 11. August 1891 – 11. March 1944
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Edgar Zilsel Quotes

“Science is not inevitable; this question is very fruitful indeed.”

Edgar Zilsel

In personal correspondence, quoted in Elisabeth Nemeth's chapter "Logical Empiricism and the History and Sociology of Science" in the Cambridge Companion to Logical Empiricism (2007) edited by Alan W. Richardson and Thomas Uebel.

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