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.

More quotes by Alexandre Koyré

Newtonian Studies (1965)

Newtonian Studies (1965)

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Alexandre Koyré (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.