Alexandre Koyre Quotes on Truth
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 truth, 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:
“The history of science is the history of human thought.”
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Attributed to Alexandre Koyre:
“Without metaphysics there is no physics worth doing.”
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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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“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.