Dr Fauci wins $1 million Israeli prize for ‘defending science’ – in perspective

Medicine had been intimately linked to the scientific revolution – which was at bottom a philosophical revolution – from the beginning; the pioneers of the revolution saw themselves as physicians to a sick civilization.[1]

Peter Gay, The Enlightenment, Vol II (1969)

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[1] Peter Gay, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation/The Science of Freedom (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1969), p. 13.