"The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for its own purpose, to illustrate impartially the working of reason against unreason, the gradual unfolding of truth, in all its forms, whether pleasant or unpleasant, useful of useless, welcome or unwelcome."

Source : George Sarton (1952). “Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”, p.14, Courier Corporation

George Sarton

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