The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method—the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically—the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The inquiry into Nature having thus been pursued nearly two thousand years theologically, we find by the middle of the sixteenth century some promising beginnings of a different method—the method of inquiry into Nature scientifically—the method which seeks not plausibilities but facts." in the context of "Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom (1896)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.