“Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.”
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
Science always uses metaphor.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was born racial anti-Semitism, based on two disciplines regarded as science in their day - the 'scientific study of race' and the Social Darwinism of Herbert Spencer and Ernst Haeckel.
