Is Science Mostly Driven by Ideas or by Tools?Freeman J. Dyson2012-12-13editorialScience88 citationsclosedNo readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.Philosophy and History of ScienceHistory of Science and MedicineDiverse Historical and Scientific StudiesAbstractThe physical sciences have alternated between revolutions driven by new ideas and explorations driven by new tools.Citations in this libraryStored only when both papers are in the corpus — 88 citations exist upstream.Cited by2020Tool-Driven Revolutions in Archaeological Science