“If one wishes to draw a line between the modern age and the world we have come to live in, he may well find it in the difference between a science which looks upon nature from a universal standpoint and thus acquires complete mastery over her, on the one hand, and a truly “universal” science, on the other, which imports cosmic processes into nature even at the obvious risk of destroying her, and, with her, man’s mastership over her.”

Hannah Arendt,
The Human Condition