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Alexandre Koyré Quotes

1892–1964 France

Alexandre Koyré (29 August 1892 – 28 April 1964) was a French philosopher of Russian origin who wrote on history and the philosophy of science.

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Philosophers

Also known as: Alexandre Koyre, Alexander Koyre, Koyre

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The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science–that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.

Newtonian Studies (1965)

Thus the world of science — the real world — became estranged and utterly divorced from the world of life, which science has been unable to explain — not even to explain away by calling it "subjective".

Newtonian Studies (1965)

What the founders of modern science … had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and replace it by another.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alexandre Koyré (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.