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. They had to destroy one world and 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, and 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.


"Galileo to Plato" in the Journal of the History of Ideas (1957).

Alexandre Koyré Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...