Role of Physics in the “Big Picture”? A brief taste (from Lect. 2)
“People began to value institutions such as private property, to question religion’s public role, and to adapt a Newtonian, scientific world view”
Viewed as regression by some - a spiritual loss (Nietsche) – unleashing of unstainable capitalism (Marx) …
Unquestionably an enormous effect on our lives
- “ ‘It struck me that the more we learn about the changes in human life after the 16th century’ – when most scholars mark the onset of the modern world – ‘the clearer it becomes that [the change] was unprecedented and radical’ ”
Robert Pipin, The University of Chicago Magazine, August, 2003