The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a…

We have failed to protect science against speculative extensions of nature, continuing to assign physical and mathematical properties to hypothetical entities beyond what is…

— Robert Lanza

At bottom each “exact” science is, and must be speculative, and its chief tool of research, too rarely used with both courage and judgement,…

— Reginald Aldworth Daly

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

— Karl Popper

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science…

— Karl Popper

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.

— Charles Darwin

The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain stages but…

— Henri Poincare

Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as irrelevant; they…

— I. Bernard Cohen

Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which I thought…

— Catherine Wilson

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

— Charles Fort

The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used only for…

— George Sarton

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of…

— Archibald Geikie

You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.

— Christopher Kelk Ingold

The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one…

— Isaac Asimov

The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a new theory…

— Ernst Mayr

The history of science teaches only too plainly the lesson that no single method is absolutely to be relied upon, that sources of error…

— John William Strutt