Intellectual progress

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What was once thought can never be unthought.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

The Physicists

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Intellectual progress

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Mobius

Author

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Source

The Physicists

Medium

Play

Language

German

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Original Citation

Durrenmatt, Friedrich. Die Physiker [The Physicists]. 1962, Zurich, Switzerland, act 2.

Current Citation

Durrenmatt, Friedrich. The Physicists, translated by Joel Agee. Grove Press, 2010, act 2.

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom.

G.W.F. Hegel

Philosophy of History

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Intellectual progress Nature of history

Author

G.W.F. Hegel

Source

Philosophy of History

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Philosophical literature Historical literature

Language

German

Time

1832 1830s 19th century

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Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Current Citation

Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

Galileo Galilei

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Intellectual progress Scientific progress

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Sagredo

Author

Galileo Galilei

Language

Italian

Time

1638 1630s 17th century

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Galilei, Galileo. "Giornata Prima [First Day]." Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze [Discourses and Mathematicals Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences]. Leiden: Ludovico Elzeviro, 1638.