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Quotation from Science and the Modern World by Alfred North Whitehead
“My explanation is that the faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology”
Science and the Modern World, Ch. I, The Origins of Modern Science (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611))
The book's most cited historical thesis, following his account of the medieval insistence on the rationality of God.
Citation: "My explanation is that the faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology" — Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World, Ch. I, The Origins of Modern Science (Macmillan, New York, 1925 (Project Gutenberg #68611)). (id whitehead-science-and-the-modern-world-q2)
