The writing of Copernicus was banned altogether by the Church because it threatened the false and destructive unification principle of the Catholic Church.In the same way, the modern power structure of physicalism (including but not limited to the scientific orthodoxy, government institutions, media an...
Something new has happened to create a world-wide awareness of our planet as a unique and precious place. It seems to me more than a coincidence that this awareness should have happened at exactly the moment man took his first step into space.2 ...
Some profound works of Science have been the result—not least perhaps two of the biggest of all time, the realization of Copernicus that the Earth is not the center of the solar system, and the painstaking work of Darwin on natural selection and evolution (the writ- ing of which caused ...
Odds are this is, in a mild form, an example of one of the taboos a visitor from the future would have to be careful to avoid if he happened to set his time machine for Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1992. [5]PrigsOf course, if they have time machines in the future they'll probably hav...
especially polite to compliment someone's clothing than where it's considered improper. So odds are this is, in a mild form, an example of one of the taboos a visitor from the future would have to be careful to avoid if he happened to set his time machine for Cambridge, Massachusetts, ...
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. — Nicolaus Copernicus 367 Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right. — Charlemagne 325 ...
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When he drew up the table, there were various gaps in his diagram that predicted the existence of elements (such as gallium and germanium) that had not yet been discovered. When those elements were discovered later, it helped to confirm Mendeleev's ideas. (It's also important to note that...
Pre-scientific knowledge, or "common sense" knowledge, is thought to be discredited by Copernicus and the succeeding natural science. But the fact that what we may call telescopic-microscopic knowledge is very fruitful in certain areas, does not entitle one to deny that there are things which ...
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