The passage Daniele Besomi
[http://eh.net/pipermail/hes/2005-May/003034.html ]
refers to is:
"The history of science is far from being a linear unfolding that
corresponds to a series of successive approximations toward some intrinsic
truth. It is full of contradictions, of unexpected turning points."
Prigogine and Stengers (1984) "Order out of Chaos" p xxviii
Andy Denis