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Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility of finding out causal relationships by systematic experiment (Renaissance).
Albert Einstein Letter to J.S. Switzer · 1953

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Albert Einstein · 1953
Letter to J.S. Switzer

A brief reply naming two developments Einstein saw as the basis of Western science, and why their absence elsewhere is unremarkable.

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