Anaximander and the Nature of Science

[BidenPresident]

In Rovelli’s formative book, now published in English for the first time, he argues that a little-known Greek philosopher invented the idea of the cosmos

That process, the idea that knowledge was something not handed down by gods or elders, but evolving, something to be quickly interrogated and built upon, set in motion, Rovelli argues, what we understand as the scientific method.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...lli-review-the-ancient-master-of-the-universe

 

[BidenPresident]

This may be the most important part:

“Each time that we – as a nation, a group, a continent or a religion – look inward in celebration of our specific identity we do nothing but lionise our own limits and sing of our stupidity.”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2...lli-review-the-ancient-master-of-the-universe