The Blind Spot Quotes

“The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution, argues that although Bacon advanced egalitarianism by establishing the inductive method by which anyone, in principle, can verify for themselves the truths of science, he also helped to undermine communal agrarian society in favor of “an emerging market economy that tended to widen the gap between upper and lower social classes by concentrating more wealth in the hands of merchants, clothiers, entrepreneurial adventurers, and yeoman farmers through the exploitation and alteration of nature for the sake of progress.”
― Adam Frank, The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience