Scientific progress required expelling religious and classical textual 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? Recall the example of theories on the origin of springs. The first exact formulation of the way that springs are produced is to be found in the Encyclopaedia of Diderot, etc. While the ordinary people can be shown to have had correct opinions on the question before then, in the scientific world there were a succession of the most arbitrary and bizarre theories which aimed to reconcile the Bible and Aristotle with the experimental observations of good sense. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1621

Categorization

• XREF: Authority’s expulsion from science parallels the later toolkit themes of displacing religious/sacred authority as a precondition for alternate systems of intelligibility. — connects to: Modern science advanced by expelling Aristotle and the Bible from its authority — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1621; Modern Western science displaced metaphysics and religion as the supreme authority over knowledge — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 290; The narrative of progress from religious to secular is now untenable — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular:…, 17 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Modern science advanced by expelling Aristotle and the Bible from its authority #corroborates (0.95) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1621
• Modern Western science displaced metaphysics and religion as the supreme authority over knowledge #expands (0.90) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 290
• The narrative of progress from religious to secular is now untenable #contradicts (0.85) — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 17
• The Enlightenment concept posits science as progress and clergy as its obstacle #corroborates (0.80) — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism, 150
• Blind faith in rational progress has become a theology as punishing as biblical religion #complicates (0.75)