Over the past few centuries, two transformations - one scientific, the other democratic - have altered the thinking and the well being of the human species. The scientific revolution is still gathering momentum, but has already revealed more about the universe than had been learned in all prior history, while the technological applications of scientific knowledge have rescued billions from poverty, ignorance, fear, and an early grave. The democratic revolution has spread freedom and equal rights to nearly half the world's inhabitants, making democracy the preference of informed peoples everywhere.
-Timothy Ferris, The Science of Liberty: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature
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