Modern science advanced by expelling Aristotle and the Bible from its authority

Evidence

How great a contribution to the progress of science was made by the expulsion from the scientific fields of the authority of Aristotle and the Bible? And was not this expulsion due to the general progress of modern society? — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1621

Categorization

• XREF: This anchors the social-history-of-science thread: scientific change tied to societal progress, useful for understanding how Intellectuals frame the modern break. — connects to: Scientific progress required expelling religious and classical textual authority — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1621