“This relationship, often called the Golden mean, has been discovered and rediscovered at various times in history as a unique proportion believed… — John Pile Copy Share Image
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The strength of the familiar electromagnetic force between two electrons, for example, is expressed in physics in terms of a constant known… — Mario Livio Copy Share Image
The history of science knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“And, if you'll investigate the history of science, my dear boy, I think you'll find that most of the really big ideas… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“According to Thoth, because of the placement of the Great Pyramid on the Earth connecting into the Earth's huge geometrical field -… — Drunvalo Melchizedek Copy Share Image
You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that. — Christopher Kelk Ingold Copy Share Image
“To return to the general analysis of the Rosicrucian outlook. Magic was a dominating factor, working as a mathematics-mechanics in the lower… — Frances A. Yates Copy Share Image
“A number of years ago, when I was a freshly-appointed instructor, I met, for the first time, a certain eminent historian of… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Any scientist who tells you they know that GMOs are safe and not to worry about it, is either ignorant of the… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Central to all these interlinked themes was that curious irrational, phi, the Golden Section. Schwaller de Lubicz believed that if ancient Egypt… — John Anthony West Copy Share Image
In the history of science it has often happened that the majority was wrong and refused to listen to a minority that… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify their results… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
I came to realize that exaggerated concern about what others are doing can be foolish. It can paralyze effort, and stifle a… — Theodore von Karman Copy Share Image
“It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.” — Bradley Steffens Copy Share Image
If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and… — Archibald Geikie Copy Share Image
The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian… — Pierre Duhem Copy Share Image
The history of science should not be an instrument to defend any kind of social or philosophic theory; it should be used… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The history of art cannot be properly understood without some reference to the history of science. In both we are studying the… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Under my definition, a scientific theory is a proposed explanation which focuses or points to physical, observable data and logical inferences. There… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
