Published papers may omit important steps and the memory…

The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology.

— Leopold von Ranke

“For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, “history originated as myth” and becomes a “social memory” to which men can appeal, “knowing it will…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

The very bulk of scientific publications is itself delusive. It is of very unequal value; a large proportion of it, possibly as much as…

— John Desmond Bernal

It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant…

— Ernest Rutherford

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

— Henry David Thoreau

As soon as you put men together, they somehow sink, corporatively, below the level of the worst of the individuals composing it. Collect scholars…

— Aleister Crowley

Perfect concordance among reformers is not to be expected; and men who are honestly struggling towards the light cannot hope to attain at one…

— Thomas George Bonney

Science has a simple faith, which transcends utility. Nearly all men of science, all men of learning for that matter, and men of simple…

— Vannevar Bush

I appeal to the contemptible speech made lately by Sir Robert Peel to an applauding House of Commons. 'Orders of merit,' said he, 'were…

— John Joseph Griffin

The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“Mighty men of science and mighty deeds. A Newton who binds the universe together in uniform law; Lagrange, Laplace, Leibnitz with their wondrous mathematical…

— Frederick William Sanderson

Men of science have made abundant mistakes of every kind; their knowledge has improved only because of their gradual abandonment of ancient errors, poor…

— George Sarton

Religious leaders and men of science have the same ideals; they want to understand and explain the universe of which they are part; they…

— Arthur Keith

This characteristic of modern experimentsthat they consist principally of measurements, is so prominent, that the opinion seems to have got abroad, that in a…

— James Clerk Maxwell