"This book argues that ... the was sparked—caused is perhaps not too strong a word—by the scientific revolution, and that science continues to foster today. It's not just that scientific creativity has produced technological improvements, which in turn have enhanced the prosperity and security of the scientific nations, although that is part of the story, but that the freedoms protected by liberal democracies are essential to facilitating scientific inquiry, and that democracy itself is an experimental system without which neither science nor liberty can flourish."
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Timothy Ferris
1986 – 1987
(born August 29, 1944) is an American science writer and author of twelve books. He won the 1986 and for the academic year 1986–1987 was a . His 1988 book Coming of Age in the Milky Way was awarded the 1989 . He is a professor emeritus in the departments of journalism and astronomy of the University of California, Berkeley.
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