
“Science is not about status quo. It’s about revolution.”
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (1993), p. 193
Preface
Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)
“Science is not about status quo. It’s about revolution.”
The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question? (1993), p. 193
Einstein's special theory of relativity, which explains the indeterminateness of the frame of space and time, crowns the work of Copernicus who first led us to give up our insistence on a geocentric outlook on nature; Einstein's general theory of relativity, which reveals the curvature or non-Euclidean geometry of space and time, carries forward the rudimentary thought of those earlier astronomers who first contemplated the possibility that their existence lay on something which was not flat. These earlier revolutions are still a source of perplexity in childhood, which we soon outgrow; and a time will come when Einstein's amazing revelations have likewise sunk into the commonplaces of educated thought.
The Theory of Relativity and its Influence on Scientific Thought (1922), p. 31-32
Cited from Lord Rayleigh, The Life of Sir J. J. Thomson (1943), p. 199.
Attributed
Abortion: The Clash of Absolutes (1990), Approaching Abortion Anew
No page reference found; as quoted in "Search for Beliefs to Live by Consistent with Science" in Zygon, Journal of Religion & Science 26 p. 237–258
Science and the Problem of Values (1972)
Letter to Benjamin Franklin (Feb 2, 1790) as quoted by I. Bernard Cohen, Revolution in Science (1985)
1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 1, Ecumenopolis, p. 19
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