Alexandre Koyré

"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. Th…"

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

"The infinite Universe of the New Cosmology, infinite in Duration as well as Extension, in which eternal matter in accordance with eternal and necessary laws moves endlessly and aimlessly in eternal sp…"