The history of science, like the history of all human…

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

“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 R. Popper

The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being.

— Karl Popper

“But dreams are funny things. Sometimes even the most impractical and irresponsible dreams just won't be ignored. And sometimes when you don't follow your…

— Lizzie K. Foley

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

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

— Charles Darwin

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