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… is from page 649 of the final (2016) volume – Bourgeois Equality [2] – of Deirdre McCloskey [3]‘s soaring trilogy on the essence of bourgeois values, on their transmission, and on their essential role in modern life (footnote deleted):
Science didn’t make the modern world. Technology did, in the hands of newly liberated and honored instrument makers and tinkerers.