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    15 DEC 2011

     Science is the Great Instrument of Social Change

    But science is the great instrument of social change, all the greater because its object is not change but knowledge, and its silent appropriation of this dominant function, amid the din of political and religious strife, is the most vital of all the revolutions which have marked the development of modern civilisation.
    Folksonomies: science philosophy change revolution
    Folksonomies: science philosophy change revolution
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    Because it works to acquire knowledge, not change, and does this silently, it is "the most vital of all the revolutions."

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