For history and for science facts are self-evident and are…

“These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.”

— Isaac Asimov

I decided to teach because I think that any person who studies philosophy has to be involved actively.

— Angela Davis

“For you cannot know the world by just navel-gazing. This is why he reads history and studies philosophy: not to draw lessons and precepts,…

— Stefan Zweig

I love history, cultural and religious studies, philosophy, photography and traveling.

— Ryan Lewis

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

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

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 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 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

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

— Karl Popper

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

— Christopher Kelk Ingold

History is the science of what never happens twice.

— Paul Valery