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The working of great administrations is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self-interest, carelessness and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.

Giorgio de Santillana

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Immanuel Kant

Giorgio de Santillana

Giorgio de Santillana

Born: May 30, 1902
Died: June 8, 1974 (aged 72)
Bio: Giorgio Diaz de Santillana was an Italian-American philosopher and historian of science, and Professor of the History of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Known for:
  1. Hamlet's Mill (1969)
  2. The crime of Galileo (1955)
  3. The origins of scientific thought (1961)

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