“The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.” TryingMindWarProcessHistoryMilitaryProduceBasesHistoricalAcademicAssuranceRelentlessDismayed Author:Herbert Butterfield
“Of all the intellectual hurdles which the human mind has confronted and has overcome in the last fifteen hundred years the one which seems to me to have been the most amazing in character and the most stupendous in the scope of its consequences is the one relating to the problem of motion.” YearsMindHumansHas BeensCharacterProblemSeemsLastsIntellectualHundredConsequenceOvercomingHuman MindFifteenScopeMost AmazingHurdle Book:The Origins of Modern Science Source: The Origins of Modern Science
