The history of science is the saga of nature defying…

“Fear best lends itself to the creation of Nature-defying illusions.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.

— H. P. Lovecraft

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were…

— Margaret Geller

The earlier truths are not expelled but absorbed, not contradicted but extended; and the history of each science, which may thus appear like a…

— William Whewell

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

To witness history and science being made in front of your eyes is the rush.

— Ginger Zee

“For history and for science facts are self-evident and are the subject-matter of these studies, but for philosophy they are the most puzzling things…

— Michael Oakeshott

History is the science of what never happens twice.

— Paul Valery

History is and should be a science.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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

— Karl Popper

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

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

— Christopher Kelk Ingold