> I'm a bit lost what the author wants to tell us He wants to tell you this: "I conjecture, modern science arose in the 17th century, in the course of the so-c

> I'm a bit lost what the author wants to tell us He wants to tell you this: "I conjecture, modern science arose in the 17th century, in the course of the so-called Scientific Revolution, precisely because it stumbled upon the extraordinary motivating power of ‘only empirical evidence counts’ – a story I tell in my book The Knowledge Machine (2020)." It's a book ad.