<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The Western scientific mind begins with a wager... > The Western scientific mind begins with a wager about reality: the unknown can be investigated, measured, and understood. Rubio joined that wager to mathematics, medicine, philosophy, ethics, and a conception of human beings capable of seeking truth. The Greek contribution is therefore carried wherever inquiry remains possible, from a classroom to a laboratory to the next instrument that makes nature newly legible. A society that preserves the names of its philosophers while abandoning their confidence in discovery has kept the label and lost the method. **Source:** [[articles/America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity|America's Neo-Western Renewal from the Acropolis of Athens to Eternity]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The Western scientific mind begins with a wager about reality: the unknown can be investigated, measured, and understood. Rubio joined that wager to mathematics, medicine, philosophy, ethics, and a conception of human beings capable of seeking truth. The Greek contribution is therefore carried wherever inquiry remains possible, from a classroom to a laboratory to the next instrument that makes nature newly legible. A society that preserves the names of its philosophers while abandoning their confidence in discovery has kept the label and lost the method.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/passages/passages-western-scientific-mind-label-lost-method ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->