The long absence of science is therefore not to be explained by some particular train of events or some specific mix of custom and circumstance. It spans democracies and theocracies, east and west, pantheists and People of the Book. It seems, to all the world, that there is something about the nature of science itself that the human race finds hard to take on board. That, I believe, is the answer: science is an alien thought form. To understand its late arrival on the human scene, we need to appreciate the inherent strangeness of the scientific method.
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