Edgar Zilsel Quote

The modern scientist looks upon science as a great building erected stone by stone through the work of his predecessors and his contemporary fellow-scientists, a structure that will be continued but never completed by his successors.


The Genesis of the Concept of Scientific Progress, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Volume 6 1945 (p. 325)


The modern scientist looks upon science as a great building erected stone by stone through the work of his predecessors and his contemporary...

The modern scientist looks upon science as a great building erected stone by stone through the work of his predecessors and his contemporary...

The modern scientist looks upon science as a great building erected stone by stone through the work of his predecessors and his contemporary...

The modern scientist looks upon science as a great building erected stone by stone through the work of his predecessors and his contemporary...