America became a special source of attraction to people who were fleeing the aftereffects of the 30 Years War and the religious persecution that began to sweep through Europe in the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment. And when people got here, very often they succeeded.
Mitch HorowitzScience, as it reaches the public mind, has both served to discredit and unintentionally reaffirmed mystical ideas.
Mitch HorowitzAll the quantum physics experiments have occurred chiefly on the atomic scale and we are taught to believe that nature's laws are consistent.
Mitch Horowitz