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NEXUS: A Brief History of Infomation Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Volume.1) [Japanese Edition]

Book by Yuval Noah Harari · 1 quotes · Church, Holy Book, Ignorance

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“A church typically told people to trust it because it possessed the absolute truth, in the form of an infallible holy book. A scientific institution, in contrast, gained authority because it had strong self-correcting mechanisms that exposed and rectified the errors of the institution itself. It was these self-correcting mechanisms, not the technology of printing, that were the engine of the scientific revolution. In other words, the scientific revolution was launched by the discovery of ignorance. Religions of the book assumed they had access to an infallible source of knowledge.”

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