Alexandre Koyre quotes

Alexandre Koyre quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to 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 to replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, a new concept of science-and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all.”
-- Alexandre Koyre

Source : "Galileo to Plato". Journal of the History of Ideas, 1957.

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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.”
-- Alexandre Koyre

Source : "Newtonian Studies" by Alexandre Koyre, (p. 114), 1965.

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