Quote#Science & Reason
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a…
Quote byNorman Robert Campbell · 1880–1949
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: What Is Science?, 1921, as cited in: Roy Wood Sellars, The Essentials of Logic. 1925. p. 208.
English (original)
Science would not be what it is if there had not been a Galileo, a Newton or a Lavoisier, any more than music would be what it is if Bach, Beethoven and Wagner had never lived. The world as we know it is the product of its geniuses—and there may be evil as well as beneficent genius—and to deny that fact, is to stultify all history, whether it be that of the intellectual or the economic world.
— Norman Robert Campbell
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