“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
It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,… — Charles Sanders Peirce 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
It would be foolish to give credit to Euclid for pangeometrical conceptions; the idea of geometry deifferent from the common-sense one never… — George Sarton 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 impulse to all movement and all form is given by [the golden ratio], since it is the proportion that summarizes in… — Schwaller de Lubicz 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
“The water beneath the Temple was both actual and metaphorical, existing as springs and streams, as spiritual energy, and as a symbol… — John Michell 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
“The bridge between the electron and the other elementary particles is provided by the fine structure constant. ... An expanded form of… — Malcolm H. Mac Gregor 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
“The fine-structure constant derives its name from its origin. It first appeared in Sommerfeld's work to explain the fine details of the… — John S. Rigden 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
“...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
Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in… — Brian May Copy Share Image
“Dirac's equation not only accounted for the spin of the electron and its observed magnetic moment, but also correctly explained the fine… — Silvan S. Schweber Copy Share Image
Historians of a generation ago were often shocked by the violence with which scientists rejected the history of their own subject as… — I. Bernard Cohen 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
Indeed, nothing more beautifully simplifying has ever happened in the history of science than the whole series of discoveries culminating about 1914… — Robert Andrews Millikan 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
“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
“In his first philosophical lecture on modern physics that Pauli gave in November 1934 to the Zurich Philosophical Society he said that… — Charles P. Enz 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
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
