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Quotes from Science A Four Thousand Year History — Patricia Fara

born 1948

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Even though Mendeleev always denied that electrons exist, they later turned out to be vital for ordering the elements in his table.

Science A Four Thousand Year History (2009)

Christians believed in a teleological cosmos, one created by an omniscient God, a Grand Designer, for a specific purpose. This comforting view was threatened by the new statistical methods in physics, and also by Darwin's theory of evolution, which assumes that chance may intervene between generations to introduce new characteristics.

Science A Four Thousand Year History (2009)

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