The Discontinuities in Nature

"We suspect that when someone invented the crossbow, warriors talked in their messes about this meaning the end of civilized war as we know it," he says. "But with hindsight, we perceive that these innovations fit a pattern of development and that each advance in the technology of attack rapidly drew forth an equivalent technology of defense." He adds: 'It is not my own argument that we should point to exceptional incidents and declare the world has radically changed' The first lunar landing was indeed the crossbow of its time,. philosophers of science too would endorse the cultural verdict. They declare that the universe proceeds by continuities and there are no special events. Or as their predecessors used to say in the