The method of the twentieth century is to use not single but 
multiple models for experimental exploration—the 
technique of the suspended judgment.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

Until now a culture has been a mechanical fate for societies, 
the automatic interiorization of their own technologies.

The techniques of uniformity and repeatability were introduced 
by the Romans and the Middle Ages.

The word “modern” was a term of reproach used by the 
patristic humanists against the medieval schoolmen who 
developed the new logic and physics.