Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of… — Robert D. Richardson 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 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 is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements. — Charles Fort 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
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
“Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.” — Stephen M. Barr Copy Share Image
The history of science is everywhere speculative. It is a marvelous hiatory. It makes you proud to be a human being. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“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
“It is a bizarre, but nevertheless psychologically exact, fact that the physics of the Greeks — being statics and not dynamics —… — Oswald Spengler 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
Sigmund Freud often remarked that great revolutions in the history of science have but one common, and ironic, feature: they knock human… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The task of the educator is to make the child's spirit pass again where its forefathers have gone, moving rapidly through certain… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
“Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers… — James A. Secord 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 knows scores of instances where an investigator was in the possession of all the important facts for a… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The chief requisite for the making of a good chicken pie is chicken; no amount of culinary legerdemain can make up for… — George Sarton Copy Share Image
“Who amongst them realizes that between the Differential Calculus and the dynastic principle of politics in the age of Louis XIV, between… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“God is a pure mathematician!' declared British astronomer Sir James Jeans. The physical Universe does seem to be organised around elegant mathematical… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend… — Ian Stevenson Copy Share Image
More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they… — Robert Charles Wilson 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
“While twentieth-century physicists were not able to identify any convincing mathematical constants underlying the fine structure, partly because such thinking has normally… — Carl Johan Calleman Copy Share Image
“The unsolved problems of the physical world now seem even more formidable than those solved in the twentieth century. Though in application… — Gerald Holton 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
“A good example of the archetypal ideas which the archetypes produce are natural numbers or integers. With the aid of the integers… — K. V. Laurikainen Copy Share Image
“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession"… — Todd Hayen Copy Share Image
“The power of the deductive network produced in physics has been illustrated in a delightful article by Victor F. Weisskopf. He begins… — Gerald Holton Copy Share Image
“The conclusion that the Egyptians of the Old Kingdom were acquainted with both the Fibonacci series and the Golden Section, says Stecchini,… — Peter Tompkins Copy Share Image
“In short, the idea dawns that the one universal principle which possibly ... between force and structure, the embodiment of the Principle… — Marja de Vries Copy Share Image
“It is a fact of life that oversimplified accounts of the development of science are often necessary in its teaching. Most scientific… — Jim Al-Khalili 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
“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
“...men are capable of perceiving the Pyramid in an astonishing number of ways. Some have thought the Pyramid was an astronomic and… — William Fix Copy Share Image
The history of science is science itself; the history of the individual, the individual. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
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
If the history of science teaches us anything, it is that what conquers our ignorance is research, not giving up and attributing… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
