Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier cen…

Bertrand Russell
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Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century. ✨ Bertrand Russell (2004). History of Western Philosophy, p.484, Routledge
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