这种控制的尝试……我们谈论的是五百年历史的西方态度。他们始于意大利佛罗伦萨是世界上最重要的城市。科学的基本思想 - 有一种新的方式来研究现实，这是客观的，它并不取决于您的信念或国籍，这是理性的 - 当时的想法是新鲜而令人兴奋的。它为未来提供了希望和希望，并扫除了数百年历史的旧中世纪系统。封建政治，宗教教条和可恶的迷信的中世纪世界在科学之前就落下。
(this attempt to control … We are talking about Western attitudes that are five hundred years old. They began at the time when Florence, Italy, was the most important city in the world. The basic idea of science-that there was a new way to look at reality, that it was objective, that it did not depend on your beliefs or your nationality, that it was rational-that idea was fresh and exciting back then. It offered promise and hope for the future, and it swept away the old medieval system, which was hundreds of years old. The medieval world of feudal politics and religious dogma and hateful superstitions fell before science.)