Alexandre Koyre Quotes on Mind
Alexandre Koyre was a Russian-born French historian and philosopher of science whose work helped to inaugurate the modern internalist history of science. This page collects quotes attributed to Alexandre Koyre on the topic of mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Alexandre Koyre:
“Galileo's revolution was a revolution of the mind, not of the eye.”
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Attributed to Alexandre Koyre:
“We do not see facts; we see facts in the light of theory.”
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“What the founders of modern science … had to do, was not criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, and a new concept of science — and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all.”
Galileo to Plato" in the Journal of the History of Ideas (1957). -
“The belief in creation as the background of empiricomathematical [sic] science–that seems strange. Yet the ways of thought, human thought, in its search for truth are, indeed, very strange.”
Newtonian Studies (1965), p. 114.